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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: HR 1542 [OT, anti-BS attempt, US]
Greg- Maybe you feel comfortable with the extent of regulation you see (or think you see) in Florida but after a few years on the cable advisory board in Greenfield, Massachusetts, I can tell you that there is no effective regulation here. I seriously doubt that there is meaningful cable regulation anywhere but I am willing to be corrected. At least in Massachusetts, cable advisory boards are a sick joke. David Leonard ShaysNet On Mon, 7 May 2001, Greg Maxwell wrote: > > On Mon, 7 May 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote: > > [snip] > > Cable operators are unregulated local monopolies. > > No. They are regulated, by the franchise agreement. If the agreement isn't > strong enough to ensure the highest best use of public right-of-way then > it's a failure of the local government for not making it so (or the > state/FCC for forbiding the local governments from placing certain > requirements in the agreement). > > It appears that there is a lot of shooting from the hip going on here. > cable regulation is fraught with legal complications and is changing > rapidly right now, and the layman anaysis going on here isn't doing the > topic justice. > > It's additionally complicated by the fact that the laws differ from state > to state. In Florida, it's covered by Sec. 166.046, Florida Statutes and > the Communications Act of 1934, the Cable Communications Policy Act of > 1984, the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of > 1992, and the Telecommunications Act of 1996. > > If there is any intrest, I believe that Martin County (Fl)'s 1999 > agreement with Adelphia is online someplace, I could track down a > URL for it. > > >
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