'Premature' to Close Set-Top Docket, Pai Tells House Republicans

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai didn't want to close the set-top docket in its entirety because the commission had “teed up certain issues that were not related to my predecessor's flawed set-top box scheme,” he said in an April 13 reply to House Commerce Committee Republicans, released Thursday. “In particular, the FCC sought comment on eliminating the current CabIeCARD reporting requirement, and I do not want to impede our ability to take appropriate action with respect to this regulation in an efficient manner by immediately closing this docket.” Doing so would be "premature," he said. He mentioned removing former Chairman Tom Wheeler’s set-top box order: “As such, it is no longer pending before the Commission, and I do not intend to resurrect it.” The lawmakers wrote Pai in January.