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Media Bureau Upholds TWC Effective Competition Recon Petition

The FCC Media Bureau reversed itself on whether Adams, Massachusetts, is subject to effective cable competition. In an order Thursday, the bureau upheld Time Warner Cable's petition for reconsideration of a 2015 order saying the town wasn't subject to effective…

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competition. The bureau cited TWC's reconsideration petition argument that the bureau had miscalculated the subscriber count in the town, and that the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable had agreed not to fight the petition in a settlement it reached with TWC.