Calif. Cable Group Urges Status Quo on Video Franchises

California video franchising is working fine as is, the California Video & Broadband Association (CalBroadband) said Monday. The state cable group urged the California Public Utilities Commission to “continue with the existing approach and adhere closely to the legislative mandates set forth in” a 2021 law that increased CPUC authority under the state’s Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act (DIVCA) to check if state video franchisees are deploying enough broadband. “Since the passage of DIVCA, an industry landscape of primarily locally franchised traditional cable providers has been replaced with a highly competitive, diversified environment that now includes a plethora of non-traditional video service providers,” CalBroadband said.