FCC Set-Top Plan a Burden to MVPDs, Cox Says
The FCC-proposed set-top box plan would unfairly burden multichannel video programming distributors, Cox said in a meeting Wednesday with aides to Chairman Tom Wheeler, according to an ex parte filing in docket 16-42 (see 1609230058). The plan would unfairly require…
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MVPDs to “provide and support an unspecified number of native apps, while, in contrast, platform manufacturers or developers would not need to make any changes and effectively would be in a position to dictate the terms of MVPD compliance,” Cox said. An “unworkable” amount of separate, customized apps would be required under the FCC plan, Cox said. “With each new app, customer service becomes far more complicated and costly, an expense for which the Fact Sheet does not indicate any sunset.”