The FCC's Media Bureau has granted, with conditions, Charter Communications, Inc.'s request for a two-year waiver of the agency's ban on set-top boxes with integrated security. Charter had said that "it needs two years to roll out downloadable security set-top boxes to customers before its cable systems will be fully ready to support downloadable security. Therefore, during this interim period, Charter would deploy boxes that include two security systems-one that includes a hardware chip that would eventually be used for downloadable security and a second that includes traditional integrated security to be used for a two-year 'transitional period before downloadable security is activated,'" the bureau recalled in its memorandum opinion and order adopted and released April 18 in MB docket 12-328 and Cable Services docket 97-80.
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