The CPUC’s Division of Rate Payers Advocates has filed a petition at California’s Utility Commission asking the State of California to go above and beyond the boilerplate cable franchise renewal process laid out in the Digital Infrastructure and Competition Act (DIVCA) and institute a real public process that allows the users of a cable franchise to talk about the quality of service provided by the franchisee.
To support the ORA petition: you can send a note to the Commission at: [email protected].
Here’s some points you might want to touch on:
1. The Commission should operate in an open and transparent manner in making its decisions based on the record developed in public. The Commission should ensure that the renewal process is open, transparent, and meaningfully available to the public.
2. The Commission should not restrict comments to only cable company violations of non-appealable court orders.;
3. Public comment and participation provide the Commission with information on consumer concerns that otherwise may not be captured by other Commission channels.
If you’d like to read the petition, you can download a copy of it below.