The FCC freed from local video rate regulation
The FCC freed from local video rate regulation four cable operators in about 30 municipalities in six states. The Media Bureau granted unopposed effective competition requests from Bright House Networks, Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable in areas including…
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Santa Barbara, California, for Cox, and Galax, Virginia, for Comcast. The six effective competition petitions each have “sufficient and reliable evidence to establish that both elements of the competing provider test” for effective comp are met, said a bureau order released Monday (http://bit.ly/TmI2t0). The bureau recently said it changed how it approves such unopposed requests, granting them in batches a few times a year instead of doing so one at a time (CD March 27 p21).