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[email protected] August 19, 2016 Ms. Marlene H. Dortch Secretary, Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street S.W. Washington, DC 20554 Re: Expanding Consumers’ Video Navigation Choices, MB Docket No. 16-42, Commercial Availability of Navigation Devices, CS Docket No. 97-80 Dear Ms. Dortch: The National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) hereby submits this response to recent ex parte notices filed in the above-captioned proceedings by critics who would rather that MVPD services and programmer content not be protected by MVPD apps and licenses but instead be more readily exposed to their own commercial exploitation and monetization.1 The ex partes misstate and then profess to critique the HTML5 apps approach proposed by diverse independent programmers and multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) on June 15, 2016 as an alternative means for making MVPD services available to 1 Such ex partes have been submitted by Public Knowledge, the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), INCOMPAS, Hauppauge Computer Works, Amazon, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and TiVo. See Letter from John Bergmayer, Public Knowledge, to Marlene H. Dortch, FCC, MB Docket No. 16-42, CS Docket No. 97-80 (July 20, 2016) (“Public Knowledge July 20, 2016 Ex Parte”); Letter from John Bergmayer, Public Knowledge, to Marlene H. Dortch, FCC, MB Docket No. 16-42, CS Docket No. 97-80 (July 29, 2016) (“Public Knowledge July 29, 2016 Ex Parte”); Letter from John A. Howes, Jr., Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), to Marlene H.