NCTA Seeks Leased Access Rate Changes, End to Program-Centric Leasing Rules

If the FCC wants to simplify its complex leased access rate formula, it should at least modify the rate formula in situations where leased access channels are carried on the basic tier, NCTA told an aide to Commissioner Mike O'Rielly, according to a docket 07-42 ex parte posting Friday. It also said the Communications Act Section 612 doesn't require allowing the leasing of time on a program-by-program basis but that's an agency-created regulatory burden and it carriers "outsized costs."