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PUBLIC DOCUMENT—TRADE SECRET DATA HAS BEEN EXCISED Comcast of Minnesota Page 24 INet." Metro INet provides a suite of IT, data, and telephony services to at least 140 local governmental sites within and outside the NSCC franchise area, and has been used to directly complete with Comcast in bids to provide services to third parties.52 As of October 2012, the City of Roseville collected nearly $500,000 in service fees from Metro INet customers pursuant to joint powers agreements executed with local governmental customers.53 The Staff Report and RFRP make demands for a significant and expensive institutional network, as well as continued maintenance and upgrades of that network — and demand it all as an in-kind contribution to the NSCC and member cities.s4 To the extent that the RFRI''s I-Net demands contravene the Cable Act and other laws, and to the extent the NSCC requires an I-Net in-kind contribution without attributing that amount to the 5% franchise-fee cap, Comcast objects. Technology, Transmission, and Equipment Demands. Section 624(e) of the Cable Act preempts LFAs from regulating equipment and transmission technologies of an applicant cable provider: "No State or franchising authority may prohibit, condition, or restrict a cable system's use of any type of subscriber equipment or any transmission technology."Sy The legislative history shows that Congress was trying "to avoid the effects of disjointed local regulation" and enacted this provision to "prohibit States or franchising authorities from regulating in the areas of technical standards, customer equipment, and transmission technologies." 56 52. The resale of Comcast I-Net services by the City of Roseville violates section 7(c) of the franchise. Comcast objects to this continuing violation of the franchise. 53. See Ex. 11 (Roseville Joint Powers Summary). Comcast can provide a copy of any specific joint-powers agreement referenced in Exhibit 11 at the NSCCs request. Also an October 2013 presentation to Roseville's City Council noted $1 million in savings from its non-PEG-related use and collection of over $1 million in revenue from offering the Metro INet commercially. City of Roseville, Overview of the IT Function £� Metro-INET Group, http: // www.ci.roseville.mn.us / DocumentCenter / View / 12807. 54. Id. at 3-4,19, 20, 23-24, 46, 49-60; RFRP at 16-18. 55. 47 U.S.C. � 544(e). 56. H.R. Rep. No. 104-204(I), at 110 (1995), reprinted in 1996 U.S.C.C.A.N. 10, 77.