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May 4, 2007 Mary Diamond, 202-418-2388
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Media Bureau Acts on Requests for Waiver of Rules on Integrated Set-Top Boxes 
Today the Media Bureau has resolved various set-top box waiver requests, furthering 
both pro-competition and pro-consumer policies.  
These issues have been facing cable operators, the consumer electronics industry and the 
Commission for more than a decade.  Now, with the date for compliance finally in sight, 
electronics manufacturers are eager to seize the opportunity to roll out new products. 
The FCC’s Media Bureau today: 
Granted Charter Communications, Inc.’s, request for a waiver of the ban on integrated set-
top boxes for seven set-top box models until July 1, 2008. The Bureau found that the severe 
financial difficulties that Charter faces justified waiver.  
Granted conditional waivers of the integration ban to Millennium Telcom, LLC d/b/a 
OneSource Communications and GCI Cable, Inc..  The Bureau found that these operators’ 
commitments to migrate their systems to all-digital on or before February 17, 2009 justified 
grant of the waivers.  Among other things, migration to all-digital will facilitate the DTV 
transition and enable expanded service offerings. The Bureau denied Millennium’s request for a 
waiver with respect to one set-top box model, finding Millenium’s arguments that this high-end 
model was critical to its ability to migrate to all-digital unconvincing.
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