Federal Communications Commission FCC 07-32 
STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER DEBORAH TAYLOR TATE
Re:  Exclusive Service Contracts for Provision of Video Services in Multiple Dwelling Units and 
Other Real Estate Developments (MB Docket No. 07-51)
Congress has charged the Commission with advancing the increasingly interrelated goals of increasing 
competition in the multichannel video programming market and accelerating the deployment of 
broadband services.  With this item, we start the process of developing a record concerning whether the 
use of exclusive contracts for the provision of video services to multiple dwelling units (“MDU”) unfairly 
impedes competitive entry and deprives residents of those MDUs of the benefits of that competition, 
including bundled video, voice, and data packages.  I am pleased that we are addressing this important 
issue in a platform-neutral manner, and I look forward to reviewing the record as it develops.