Saying the National Cable & Telecommunications Association is trying to “freeze out” retail competition, TiVo senior VP and general counsel Matthew Zinn plans to tell Congress that it should not allow a provision in the STELA bill that would “undermine the retail market for set-top boxes and deprive consumers of choice.”
It says the provision has no place in the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act.
That is according to Zinn’s written testimony for a March 12 hearing in the House Communications Subcommittee on a draft of the bill that includes eliminating the FCC ban on integrated set-top boxes (Cable ops would no longer have to use CableCARD security add-ons).
Zinn said that while he would ordinarily not be opining on a satellite bill, he was weighing in because of a “completely unrelated provision that was slipped in to the STELA reauthorization legislation pushed by a cable lobbying group to eliminate choice in how consumers watch cable programming.”
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