09-02-2011, 05:17 AM
The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA) will be holding public hearings regarding Oceanic's renewal request.
The hearings are scheduled for Tuesday, September 6th, 5pm at Hilo County Council Chambers and Wednesday, September 7th, 5pm, King Kamehameha Kona Beach Hotel-Ballroom one.
Written comments should be submitted to DCCA by Tuesday, September 13th, 4:30pm.
cabletv@dcca.hawaii.gov
I can't go to this but am submitting comments that the agreement should demand they provide cable TV/Internet to many more rural areas and do so equitably. For example, despite there being several hundred homes from Kalapana to Seaview, they refuse to extend service because it does not meet their minimum density requirements per the current monopoly agreement. They also have very different definitions of homes than what our Seaview board determined. They counted 100 fewer homes in Seaview than our board did.
They also are not equal in where they provide access. A very rural area like Haena with only a handful of homes on the the North Shore of Kauai which is a few miles from Hanalei has high-speed cable internet, while Seaview which is only a few miles (in where the cable would go) from Leilani where it currently ends has no service.
The hearings are scheduled for Tuesday, September 6th, 5pm at Hilo County Council Chambers and Wednesday, September 7th, 5pm, King Kamehameha Kona Beach Hotel-Ballroom one.
Written comments should be submitted to DCCA by Tuesday, September 13th, 4:30pm.
cabletv@dcca.hawaii.gov
I can't go to this but am submitting comments that the agreement should demand they provide cable TV/Internet to many more rural areas and do so equitably. For example, despite there being several hundred homes from Kalapana to Seaview, they refuse to extend service because it does not meet their minimum density requirements per the current monopoly agreement. They also have very different definitions of homes than what our Seaview board determined. They counted 100 fewer homes in Seaview than our board did.
They also are not equal in where they provide access. A very rural area like Haena with only a handful of homes on the the North Shore of Kauai which is a few miles from Hanalei has high-speed cable internet, while Seaview which is only a few miles (in where the cable would go) from Leilani where it currently ends has no service.