NTCA Pushes FCC on Charter Overbuild Conditions
Overbuild requirements on Charter Communications' broadband network will use company resources better used for improving service to existing customers or expanding service to unserved potential ones, NTCA CEO Shirley Bloomfield told Commissioner Mike O'Rielly and Commissioner Ajit Pai's chief of…
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staff, Matthew Berry, in separate meetings, said an ex parte filing Friday in docket 15-149. NTCA, the American Cable Association and Competitive Enterprise Institute petitioned the FCC to reconsider the overbuild conditions (see 1606100043). Bloomfield said overbuilding in areas that can't support competition or even a sole broadband network could lead to services being pared in those markets or to companies exiting altogether. If Charter is the sole provider in a market, she said, it's under no obligation to ensure quality or affordability, just "to build," she said.