The FCC's Media Bureau has revised the comment dates for its Oct. 23 Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on cable rate deregulation, extending them for a couple of weeks. 

The initial dates had been Dec. 27 for comments and Jan. 28 for replies, but since the first deadline fell between two federal holidays—Christmas and New Year's, the FCC has decided to give attorneys a holiday break and move those dates.

The new ones are Jan. 10 for comments and Feb. 11 for replies.

The FCC was not responding to a request to move the dates, but decided to do so on its own initiative, or "sua sponte" as the lawyers call it.

Stakeholders are weighing in on various rate dereg moves, including whether to deregulate the rates of smaller operators in part because there may be none still subject to the basic rate regs.