Mass. Town Subject to Effective Competition, TWC Says
Time Warner Cable asked the FCC Media Bureau to reconsider its petition for special relief for effective competition for three Massachusetts communities that TWC cable systems serve, it said in a petition for reconsideration filed Friday in docket 12-1. The…
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commission granted in part and denied in part TWC's petition in a Feb. 5 memorandum opinion and order. Direct broadcast satellite (DBS) penetration in Adams exceeds the 15 percent statutory threshold for effective competition, TWC said. A recount found that DBS penetration in Adams is 15.22 percent, TWC said. The bureau rejected that Adams is subject to effective competition by discounting the DBS subscriber count by 0.87 percent, subtracting five homes from the count as seasonal, vacation and temporary dwellings, which brought DBS penetration to 14.90 percent, it said. The bureau “failed to follow its own precedent,” TWC said.