City of Philadelphia - File #: 000452

• File #: 000452
• Version: 1
• Type: Bill
• Status: LAPSED
• File created: 6/8/2000
• In control: Committee on Public Property and Public Works
• Title: Granting permission to RCN Telecom Services of Philadelphia, Inc. to construct, own, operate, maintain, replace, and remove a telecommunications system in, over, and under the public rights-of-way and streets of the City of Philadelphia, and to operate and maintain a video programming service over such telecommunications system pursuant to the provisions governing open video systems in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, under certain terms and conditions.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Kenney, Councilmember Kenney
• Indexes: TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
2/28/2001	1	Committee on Public Property and Public Works	HEARING NOTICES SENT
2/28/2001	1	Committee on Public Property and Public Works	HEARING NOTICES SENT
2/1/2001	0	Committee on Public Property and Public Works	HEARING NOTICES SENT
2/1/2001	0	Committee on Public Property and Public Works	AMENDED
2/1/2001	0	Committee on Public Property and Public Works	HEARING HELD
2/1/2001	1	Committee on Public Property and Public Works	RECESSED
2/1/2001	1	Committee on Public Property and Public Works	RECESSED
10/31/2000	0	Committee on Public Property and Public Works	HEARING HELD
10/31/2000	0	Committee on Public Property and Public Works	RECESSED
6/8/2000	0	CITY COUNCIL	Referred
6/8/2000	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced (By Request) and Referred	Pass

Title
Granting permission to RCN Telecom Services of Philadelphia, Inc. to construct, own, operate, maintain, replace, and remove a telecommunications system in, over, and under the public rights-of-way and streets of the City of Philadelphia, and to operate and maintain a video programming service over such telecommunications system pursuant to the provisions governing open video systems in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, under certain terms and conditions.
Body
WHEREAS, the United States Congress, in P.L. 104-104, known as the Telecommunications Act of 1996 ("Telecommunications Act"), amended the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that a telephone local exchange carrier ("LEC") may provide cable service (defined to include, inter alia, video programming) to subscribers in its telephone service area through an open video system ("OVS") complying with certain provisions of such legislation; and

WHEREAS, RCN Telecom Services of Philadelphia, Inc. ("RCN") is in the business of providing such OVS services to residential and commercial customers; and

WHEREAS, RCN is authorized by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to furnish telecommunications services as a competitive LEC ("CLEC") in Pennsylvania; and

WHEREAS, the Telecommunications Act provides that RCN, as such an authorized CLEC, may, upon appropriate certification by the FCC, offer video programming services in the City of Philadelphia as an OVS operator; and

WHEREAS, RCN is certified by the FCC to offer OVS services in the City of Philadelphia; and

WHEREAS, RCN has proposed to construct a telecommunications system within the City and to furnish a video programming services over the system as an OVS operator pursuant to the Telecommunications Act, as well as other telecommunications services; and

WHEREAS, RCN seeks authorization from the City to enter the City's rights-of-way to build and operate its telecommunications system and provide video programming services as an OVS ...