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 Federal  Communications  Commission  DA  05-  2633 
 Before  the  Federal  Communications  Commission 
 Washington,  D.  C.  20554 


 In  the  Matter  of 
 Annual  Assessment  of  the  Status  of  Competition  in  the  Market  for  the 
 Delivery  of  Video  Programming 


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 MB  Docket  No.  05-  255 


 ORDER 
 Adopted:  September  29,  2005  Released:  September  29,  2005 
 Reply  Comment  Date:  October  11,  2005 


 By  the  Acting  Chief,  Media  Bureau: 
 1.  On  August  12,  2005,  the  Commission  released  its  Notice  of  Inquiry  (“  Notice”)  in  the  above-  captioned  proceeding.  1  The  Commission  initially  set  deadlines  of  September  19,  2005,  for 
 comments,  and  October  3,  2005,  for  reply  comments. 
 2.  On  September  29,  2005,  the  National  Cable  &  Telecommunications  Association  (“  NCTA”)  filed  a  “Motion  for  Extension  of  Time”  requesting  a  one-  week  extension,  until  October  11, 


 2005,  to  file  reply  comments.  2  NCTA  notes  that  the  Commission’s  Electronic  Comment  Filing  System  (“  ECFS”)  experienced  technical  difficulties  which  delayed  the  filing  and  posting  of  many  parties’ 
 comments  on  the  Commission’s  website,  as  indicated  in  a  number  of  motions  to  accept  comments  as  timely  filed  in  this  proceeding.  In  addition,  the  comments  of  several  parties,  while  dated  September  19, 
 2005,  may  have  been  filed  late  and,  in  any  event,  were  not  posted  and  available  for  review  on  the  Commission’s  website  until  September  28,  2005.  In  light  of  the  foregoing  and  given  the  limited  duration 
 of  the  initial  reply  comment  cycle  (14  days),  NCTA  requests  a  one-  week  extension  of  time  to  enable  its  member  companies  to  respond  adequately  to  the  comments  in  the  record  of  this  proceeding. 


 3.  We  find  that  there  is  good  cause  to  extend  the  due  date  for  filing  reply  comments  in  response  to  the  Notice.  We  recognize  that  commenters  experienced  difficulties  submitting  comments 
 through  the  Commission’s  ECFS  system  on  September  19,  2005,  the  deadline  for  filing  comments,  3  and  that  there  was  a  delay  in  posting  several  timely-  filed  comments.  4  Therefore,  in  order  to  allow 


 1  Annual  Assessment  of  the  Status  of  Competition  in  the  Market  for  the  Delivery  of  Video  Programming,  FCC  05-155 
 (rel.  Aug.  12,  2005). 
 2  Motion  for  Extension  of  Time  (filed  Sept.  29,  2005). 


 3  See  Letter  from  Marlene  H.  Dortch,  Secretary,  FCC,  to  Bryan  W.  Murray,  Esq.,  Wilmer  Cutler  Pickering  Hale 
 and  Dorr  LLP,  counsel  for  SBC  Communications  (Sept.  22,  2005). 
 4  See,  e.  g.,  Comments  of  the  National  Rural  Telecommunications  Cooperative,  date  stamped  by  the  Office  of  the 
 Secretary  on  September  19,  2005,  but  not  posted  on  ECFS  until  September  28,  2005. 
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 commenters  sufficient  time  to  prepare  their  responses  to  the  initial  comments,  we  extend  the  deadline  for  the  filing  of  reply  comments  until  October  11,  2005. 
 4.  Accordingly,  IT  IS  ORDERED  that  NCTA’s  Motion  for  Extension  of  Time  to  file  reply  comments  in  the  above-  captioned  proceeding  is  GRANTED. 
 5.  IT  IS  FURTHER  ORDERED  that,  pursuant  to  Sections  4(  i),  4(  j)  and  5(  c)  of  the  Communications  Act  of  1934,  as  amended,  47  U.  S.  C.  §§  154(  i),  154(  j)  and  155  (c),  and  Sections  0.61, 
 0.283,  and  1.46  of  the  Commission’s  rules,  47  C.  F.  R.  §§  0.6,  0.283,  and  1.46,  the  date  for  filing  reply  comments  in  MB  Docket  No.  05-  255  is  extended  until  October  11,  2005. 


 FEDERAL  COMMUNICATIONS  COMMISSION 


 Donna  C.  Gregg  Acting  Chief,  Media  Bureau 
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