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 106 STAT. 1470 PUBLIC LAW 102-385—OCT. 5, 1992 "(g) COLLECTION OF INFORMATION.— The Commission shall, by regulation, require cable operators to file with the Commission or a franchising authority, as appropriate, within one year after the date of enactment of the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 and annually thereafter, such finemcial information as may be needed for purposes of administering and enforcing this section. "(h) PREVENTION OF EVASIONS. — Within 180 days after the date of enactment of the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, the Commission shall, by regulation, estab- Ush standards, guidelines, and procedures to prevent evasions, including evasions that result from retiering, of the requirements of this section and shall, thereafter, periodically review and revise such standards, guidelines, and procedures. "(i) SMALL SYSTEM BURDENS. — In developing and prescribing regulations pursuant to this section, the Commission shall design such regulations to reduce the administrative burdens and cost of compliance for cable systems that have 1,000 or fewer subscribers, "(j) RATE REGULATION AGREEMENTS. — During the term of an agreement made before July 1, 1990, by a franchising authority and a cable operator providing for the regulation of basic cable service rates, where there was not effective competition under Commission rules in eftiect on that date, nothing in this section (or the regulations thereimder) shall abridge the ability of such franchising authority to regulate rates in accordance with such an agreement. "(k) REPORTS ON AVERAGE PRICES.— The Commission shall annually publish statistical reports on the average rates for basic cable service and other cable progreimming, and for converter boxes, remote control units, and other equipment, of— "(1) cable systems that the Commission has found are subject to effective competition under subsection (a)(2), compared with "(2) cable systems that the Commission has found are not subject to such effective competition. "(1) DEFINITIONS. —As used in this section— "(1) The term 'effective competition* means that— "(A) fewer than 30 percent of the households in the franchise area subscribe to the cable service of a cable system; "(B) the franchise area is— " (i) served by at least two unaffiliated multichannel video programming distributors each of which offers comparable video programming to at least 50 percent of the households in the franchise area; and "(ii) the number of households subscribing to programming services offered by multichannel video programming distributors other than the largest multichannel video programming distributor exceeds 15 percent of the households in the franchise area; or "(C) a multichannel video programming distributor operated by the franchising authority for that franchise area offers video progrsimming to at least 50 percent of the households in tnat franchise area. "(2) The term 'cable programming service' means any video programming provided over a cable system, regardless of service tier, including installation or rental of equipment used for

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