Consumer Electronics Retailers Applaud FCC Action Affirming Plug & Play.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 10, 2003 The Consumer Electronics Retailers Coalition (CERC CERC Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants (UK) CERC Center for Environmental Research and Conservation CERC Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (India) CERC Consumer Electronics Retailers Coalition ) today applauded the announcement by the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. that it would issue regulations implementing all parts of the "Plug & Play" agreement reached by consumer electronics manufacturers and cable operators. The FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. announcement, at its monthly open meeting held this morning, means that the breakthrough agreement reached last December can now be implemented, for the benefit of consumers and competition. The Commission cited, as support for its jurisdiction in this matter, Section 304 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which requires the Commission to assure the competitive commercial availability, from manufacturers and retailers not affiliated with the service provider,of devices to receive any service offered by a Multichannel Video Programming Distributor A Multichannel Video Programming Distributor (MVPD) is a service provider delivering video programming services, usually for a subscription fee. These operators include cable television (CATV) systems, direct broadcast satellite (DBS) providers, and wireline video providers, . CERC was a prime mover prime mover: see energy, sources of. Prime mover The component of a power plant that transforms energy from the thermal or the pressure form to the mechanical form. in persuading the Congress of the necessity to pass such legislation. Today CERC praised FCC Chairman Powell and his fellow commissioners for recognizing the importance of this issue, and issuing their Report and Order unanimously. Cable television had been the last consumer telecommunications or entertainment service that could be received only by renting a device from the service provider. CERC congratulated cable operators and consumer electronics manufacturers for their hard work to change this dynamic -- a goal to which CERC has been actively committed for more than a decade -- and pledged its cooperation in the completion of this deregulatory task. CERC is a nonprofit, tax-exempt public interest corporation. CERC members include: Best Buy Co., Inc.; Circuit City Stores, Inc.; Good Guys, Inc.; RadioShack Corporation; Sears,Roebuck and Co.; Tweeter tweeter - woofer Home Entertainment Group, Inc.; Ultimate Electronics, Inc.; The International Mass Retail Association; The National Retail Federation; and the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Retail Dealers Association. For further information on CERC, see www.ceretailers.org. |
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