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These are the most recent articles mentioning "franchise" Preserve Your Rights ... numerous commercials, flyers, and emails.But their current approach combined with the opt-out technique is unethical. And it appears to violate the franchise agreement as well.According to the franchise...Copies of all notices, promotional or special offers sent to Subscribers and any agreements u... Quarterly Review As I mentioned earlier, the county's MFP committee was scheduled to review the performance of the cable franchises.I was unable to attend so I plowed through the packet - 42 pages of the same stuff as usual. I already mentioned in my all-too-verbose report (Rubberstamp This) from last week that Com... Rubberstamp This ... ectly, several times during the meeting. For instance, the committee asked if the Cable Office could issue press releases when issuing fines against franchisees. Donna Keating, acting Cable Administrator, said that the Cable Office doesn't issue press releases. Actually, the Cable Office does mak... Avoid Free Email Christmas is over. I can go back to delivering uncheery news. Here goes.Montgomery County's cable franchisees provide customers with "free" email and "free" email addresses. Great! Or is it? Let's look at these two offerings one at a time.Free Email AddressesBy "free" email addresses, I mean ad... Faith-Based Franchise ... MC or other jurisdictions. Pretty hard to believe, given that Verizon is a phone company. But county officials didn't appear to want to hold up the franchise for it.A more important issue was what kind of requirements Verizon would have for fixing service problems. For example, the negotiated pro... Public Hearing MFP CommitteeOn Monday, October 30, the MFP committee will meet at 10:30am for a quarterly review of its franchisees - and soon-to-be-franchisee Verizon.The MFP briefing packet contains reports by Sonya Healy (MC Council staffer), Jane Lawton (MC Cable Administrator), and CTC (testing and inspectio... Executive Hearing Testimony This past Thursday, September 28 2006, I attended the hearing for the public to testify on the Proposed Verizon franchise. There were 15 speakers, most of them members of the public. There were no council members present and the executive (whose hearing it was) was not there either. I was not sur... Proposed Verizon Franchise Verizon has officially submitted their franchise application. The Executive has accepted it and the two have agreed on a franchise. Whew!I'll be precise: the franchise should now be referred to as the proposed franchise because it must still approved by the County Council. We can expect them to req... Festina Lente ... lawsuit asked for:... a preliminary injunction invalidating Montgomery County's current cable franchising law and directing the county to negotiate a franchise with Verizon on lawful terms within 60 days. At the same time - in an effort to help speed the negotiations to resolution - Verizon is askin... And We Are Here To Help Montgomery County's MFP committee will be holding a quarterly hearing on the county's cable franchisees. This will be the first meeting with Verizon as an official franchisee. Are we still in the honeymoon? We'll find out. February 5 at 9am on the 7th floor of the Council Office building.My gues... Unanimous As I predicted, the Verizon franchise was approved on Tuesday (November 28, 2006). With the full council present instead of just three MFP committee members, the same questions were asked; the same responses were given. The very same responses were also given to new questions. For example, one cou... A Crossbow Might Help ... ective. The most recent Comcast fine of $1228 works out to roughly half a penny per customer. Having been hit with these fines many times, Comcast's franchise just doesn't seem to have an impact. It doesn't have enough teeth. It lacks precision. It lacks clarity. And it looks like we're going t... Hearing Tonight As I mentioned previously, the public is invited to testify at the hearing this evening (Thursday, Sept 28 2006) on the proposed Verizon franchise.Earlier today I spoke to Amy Wilson in the Cable Office and she said that 16 people are on the list to speak tonight. It's not too late to pre-register ... Quarterly Review As I mentioned earlier, the county's MFP committee was scheduled to review the performance of the cable franchises.I was unable to attend so I plowed through the packet - 42 pages of the same stuff as usual. I already mentioned in my all-too-verbose report (Rubberstamp This) from last week that Com... Executive Hearing Testimony This past Thursday, September 28 2006, I attended the hearing for the public to testify on the Proposed Verizon franchise. There were 15 speakers, most of them members of the public. There were no council members present and the executive (whose hearing it was) was not there either. I was not sur... Quarterly Review As I mentioned earlier, the county's MFP committee was scheduled to review the performance of the cable franchises.I was unable to attend so I plowed through the packet - 42 pages of the same stuff as usual. I already mentioned in my all-too-verbose report (Rubberstamp This) from last week that Com... Executive Hearing Testimony This past Thursday, September 28 2006, I attended the hearing for the public to testify on the Proposed Verizon franchise. There were 15 speakers, most of them members of the public. There were no council members present and the executive (whose hearing it was) was not there either. I was not sur... << back