(A) Quality of system. Any cable communications company granted a franchise pursuant to this chapter shall install, construct, maintain and operate its cable communications system in accordance with the accepted standards of the industry, in conformity with the state of the art and any standards or operation or maintenance for a cable communications system which may be established or issued by the Federal Communications Commission. Further, it is the intention of the Board that any person granted a franchise to furnish a cable communications service to the public within the Township of Williamstown shall possess the financial and technical qualifications necessary to provide a cable communications system which will assure its subscribers high quality technical and public service.
(B) Cable specifications. All cable communications systems franchised under this chapter shall have a cable of at least 300 MHZ of bandwidth (the equivalent of 36 television broadcast channels), available for potential use of the totality of cable services to be offered. The system shall possess the capability for the reception and distribution of world wide radio signals.
(C) Signal capability. Every cable communications system franchised under this chapter shall maintain bi-directional signal capability for digital, audio and video signal transmission on all elements of the system. The extent to which the reverse capability is available to subscriber use shall be specified in the franchise agreement.
(D) Public access channels. Every cable communications system franchised under this chapter, at a minimum, shall maintain and make available without charge the public access channels, education access channels and local government access channels as may be required by the franchise agreement by the rules and regulations of the Federal Communications Commission, including the expansion of the access channel capacity as may be required to fulfill the needs for the access channels pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Federal Communications Commission as may from time to time be in force and effect.
(E) Interconnection with other systems. Every cable communications system franchised under this chapter shall maintain the capacity, capability and technical standards as will enable it to interconnect with any other cable communications system located in any adjacent community. It is the intention of the Board to require that all access channels in the Lansing metropolitan area be interconnected to the cable communications system franchised under this chapter.
(Ord. 23, eff. 3-20-1981; Ord. rev. 9- -1993)