Charter Communications successfully tested components of its downloadable...

Charter Communications successfully tested components of its downloadable security system in a prototype set-top box, the company said in a report to the FCC posted July 31 in docket 97-80 (http://bit.ly/1u7p2ej). Such status reports were one of the conditions of the waiver of the commission’s CableCARD rules granted to the operator last year. Charter is still in talks with a maker of consumer electronics to develop a set-top box using Charter’s system for retail sale, the report said. Charter said it has deployed 1.38 million set-tops with integrated security.