FCC Ends Cable Rate Regulation in Boston
The FCC Media Bureau approved a Comcast request to avoid cable rate regulation in Boston. In an order Thursday, the bureau said it rejected arguments by the city and the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable (MDTC) that Boston wasn't…
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subject to effective competition. The bureau said there was no merit to the city's assertion that RCN subscribers should be excluded from a calculation of the number of households subscribing to a multichannel video programming distributor other than Comcast. It said even if it accepts Boston and MDTC arguments that Comcast overcounted subscribers to rival MVPD services by counting nonresidences such as summer homes and dormitories, the number of subscribing households still exceeds the level needed for effective competition.