Media Bureau Denies NCTA DSTAC Extension Request

The FCC Media Bureau denied NCTA’s request for an extension of the Nov. 9 deadline for reply comments on the Downloadable Security Technology Advisory Committee’s report, in an order released Wednesday. NCTA had asked for more time so it to respond to what it said are changes of the position of Public Knowledge and the Consumer Video Choice Coalition from what is represented in the report (see 1510280070). Those changes are shown by an Oct. 20 ex parte filing by Public Knowledge, NCTA said. The ex parte filing doesn’t justify changing the comment date, the bureau said. “Even after the filing of the October 20 Ex Parte interested parties have twenty days before the reply comment deadline to prepare their filing." The denial is “consistent with the Commission’s policy that ‘extensions of time shall not be routinely granted,’" the bureau said.