Inside Wiring

The Commission has adopted a Report and Order and Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking which addresses rules and policies concerning cable inside wiring. The Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking segment of this decision may be found elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register. The Report and Order (``Order'') segment amends the Commission's regulations relating to the disposition of cable home wiring and establishes regulations for the disposition of home run wiring and related issues including the sharing of molding, the demarcation point for multiple dwelling unit buildings (``MDUs''), loop-through cable wiring configurations, customer access to cable home wiring before termination of service, and signal leakage. This action was necessary because competition is currently being deterred by disputes over control and use of the wires necessary to reach each unit in an MDU. The intended effect of this action is to expand opportunities for new entrants seeking to compete in distributing video programming and to broaden consumers' ability to install and maintain their own wiring.