The achairman ajit pai greeting witnesses as the meeting is set to get under way shortly. Well have live allday coverage here on cspan3. Welcome. December 2017 meeting of the federal Communications Commission. Madam secretary, turn the floor over to you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Good morning to you, and good morning commissioners. The purpose of the federal Communications Commission open meeting is for the commission to consider the matters that have been duly posted in accordance with the government and the sunshine act. As provided in the commissions rules, members of the public are invited to observe, which includes attending, listening, and taking notes, but does not include participating in the meeting, or addressing the commission. Actions that purposely interfere or attempt to interfere with the commencement or conduct of the meeting, or inhibit the audiences ability to observe or listen to the meeting, including attempts by audience members to address the commission while the m
This proposal. Yeah, that is a new slide that just got put up except for the fact that looks identical to the previous slide. There was identical service delivery. There is identical entitlement optimization. There is identical relaying of choice back to the cable system and there was identical delivery of programming. So what is the difference . Desire to systems that work the same. The difference is one is close and one is so good. They have no choice today. So with the competitive box or app functions exactly like the box or act in the cable system forces you to rent today, then the protections for copyright and security are the same. That is required. Theres nothing in here that allows third parties to disaggregate cable content, sell advertising around it, you know . Theres a misrepresentation thats been made today with the assertion that this item does allow that, an assertion that it creates all kinds of opportunities for free riders. It takes the same product that goes through
Meaning. While trying to enhance competition in the settop box market, the item shoots miles beyond that narrow frame on its very first page redefining statutory terms referencing to hardware such as navigation device, interactive communication equipment and other equipment to mean hardware or Software Including apps. I dont know how much clearer the terms device or equipment could be in their intent to reference tangible, physical hardware. If those words dont work to restrict the commission, are there any that could . I dont think that anyone here believes for a second that stellar could have made it out of a single congressal committee if the members knew it would be interpreted to allow the fcc to force them to stream all of their content for free to any app developer willing to jump through a few hoops. Getting back to the original question, why this proposal . The rational stated is to achieve parity among competing interfaces and first glance anyone can see that the opposite wou
We have a couple dozen reports of tornadoes where we had a damaging tornado particularly in northern georgia during the day on wednesday. But the good news is the bad weather has moved out and the cooler and dryer weather is moving in today. 50 for a high in atlanta. Were expecting 60 in new orleans as we prepare for the super bowl. In the northeast were going to see temperatures generally in the 40s and 50s but turning colder by this evening. Lakeeffect snow through cleveland, buffalo, toronto. Snow showers around pittsburgh and a high of 29 as well. And look at the cold in the midwest. Only 15 today for chicago. Minneapolis, a high of 4. Pretty quiet in the west with a little bit of rain in seattle where today were expecting high temperatures around 49 degrees. Im David Bernard for cbs news miami. Well this Morning Police in alabama are still negotiating with a gunman who has taken a 5yearold boy hostage. Officials say they have no reason to believe the boy is injured. The gunman is
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