The Pros And Cons Of Cable Television Provisions

Out of every 100 customers 20 had to call again for repeat work installation and service activities .Within a short span of thirty days there were around 16 percent repeat or rework .

According to the theory of the 'invisible hand' of the marketplace, as advocated by Adam Smith, the marketplace naturally determines the optimal price of a good or service. But even Adam Smith viewed the development of monopolies with some trepidation and believed that government intervention was required to cease their proliferation. During the 1980s to the 1990s, it seemed fairly clear to most industry analysts that cable television functioned as a monopoly in a manner that was deleterious to consumers. Cable television had few competitors, except in the form of analog 'rabbit ears' which did not provide the full range of channels or quality that cable provided. In many areas, only a single cable company dominated the market and subscribers had few alternative options.

The primary piece of legislation used to regulate telecom providers is the Telecommunication Act of 1996. This paper will examine the characteristics, and point out similarities, of telecommunications providers and information services such as the internet. Additionally, regulation of telecommunications and the lack of regulation for information services will be addressed. Finally, recommendations for potential ways to regulate information services, the potential legal ramifications of such regulation, and the technical considerations regarding the recommendations will be identified.

This new law will change the rules for competition and regulation in the communications industry.

Broadcasting has a strict regulated radio spectrum, where as cable has no limit on how many channels can be delivered to a home, nor the amount of cable

The code is printed in booklet form and includes a preamble, section on advancement of education and culture, community

The issue of 1st amendment rights are critical subject in a Democracy such as America. For example, in the past countries like Nazi controlled Germany control media content to push out their extremist ideas and to squash any opposition content. That’s why government intervention is imperative to protect individual’s rights of free speech, freedom of press, and right to petition especially in relation to cable regulation. The best way to measure if government intervention in cable regulation is infringing upon citizens 1st amendment right is to focus on major consumer demands. The most appropriate goals to address the problem are to be able to please majority of consumers by implementing the perfect balance between autonomy and control when

The Part VA Statutory license covers the recording or copying of such materials as TV, Satellite TV, Pay TV, radio and podcast broadcasts. This license is administered by Screenrights . The Part VB Statutory license allows the communication and reproduction of textual material such as books, journals, magazines, scripts and images. This license is administered by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL).

The FCC administers all broadcasting and imposes the requirements for wire and wireless communications through its rules and regulations. The archetypes for the FCC’s broadcasting regulations were formed before the Communications Act of 1934 by its predecessor the Federal Radio Commission. Unequivocal jurisdiction over broadcast was not granted to the federal government to exclusively regulate broadcast but a year prior to the establishment of the FCC the Supreme Court inferred it as explicit and prohibited the states from obstructing its authority. Title I of the 1934 Act defines many of the FCC's powers related to broadcasting. The title states that the Act “applies to all interstate and foreign communications by wire or radio.” The FCC has jurisdiction in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. possessions such as Puerto Rico,

While public purpose challenges are still judged by the Madison Cablevision standard today, the Supreme Court of North Carolina has refined the doctrine’s scope. To start, the court in Maready v. City of Winston-Salem addressed whether a broadly constructed state statute allowing for local economic development could meet the Madison Cablevision standard. Further clarifying the first prong of the Madison Cablevision standard, the court in Maready held that “whether an activity is within the appropriate scope of governmental involvement and is reasonably related to communal needs may be evaluated by determining how similar the activity is to others which this court has held to be within the permissible realm of governmental action.” Maready

In 1928 the law called the “Davis Amendment” was passed. Every zone had to have equal allocations of licenses, time of operation, station power, and wavelength. It made radio more consistent, therefore audiences enjoyed a better listening experience. The Davis Amendment asked many radio stations to relocate because no matter the size of location the number of stations had to be kept the same. In 1934 Congress passed the Communications Act, establishing the Federal Communications Commission, which “regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories”. The FCC was created because TV was new, the Radio act of 1927 never mentioned it and they wanted to regulate TV. The impact of the FCC is still being felt today since they control what can be on TV, internet, and radio. The Radio Act’s influence on the FCC can be still felt

In a world of Hulu, HD TV, and online streaming, the television industry has had no choice but to embrace shifting consumer trends within the industry. Now that Internet streaming has allowed consumers to watch whatever they want, whenever they want, it is becoming harder for cable providers to keep up with consumer demand. Television broadcasters must take advantage of the bandwidth that they have available to them if they are to compete in the viewing market. With streaming sites such as Hulu, Amazon, and Netflix gaining competitive advantage in the market, television broadcasters can no longer sit back and continue to run as they always have. Accordingly, these television stations have begun making much-needed modifications.

Comcast is a large cable and satellite television provider in the United States. The company has been plagued with internal weaknesses and external threats in recent years and is in desperate need of turning around its customer service department as quickly as possible. Aside from customer service, the way the television industry is marketed to is changing, Comcast has to stay on the cutting edge in price, product quality, flexibility of plans, and customer service. Comcast has many different areas of their business that need to be analyzed to see where they can invest time and monetary resources to improve the quality of their product and service to their customers.

The Communications Act of 1934, as amended (the "Communications Act"), and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations and policies also significantly impact Comcast’s decision on the company's businesses, including cable system and broadcast station ownership, video services customer rates, carriage of broadcast television stations, broadcast programming content and advertising, package of programming to customers and other providers, access to cable system channels by franchising authorities and other parties, the use of utility poles and conduits, and the offering of high-speed internet and phone services (Marketline, 2013). Failure of Comcast's businesses to comply with the laws and regulations may result in administrative enforcement actions, fines and civil and criminal liability. In as much that laws, policies and regulations are much stricter in the U.S. this would present significant risks to the company's businesses which may affect its operating

Through the Federal Communications Commission, all stations are to be licensed and maintain a file that documents what the station has done to operate in the public interest. There are also radio regulations that help to make this possible. The Radio Regulations is an intergovernmental treaty. It conforms and coordinates the activity of the telecommunication networks. It keeps different frequences from different radio services from mixing together. Transmitters are to be observed by radio stations, and procedures are done to ensure technical compatibility. It basically helps to better the development of communications technology. These regulations are accomplished through the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).