FCC Ignoring Law's Plain Text, Own Rules in LEC Test Interpretation, MDTC Says
Arguments about the video marketplace being more competitive than ever due to streaming services ignore the fundamental question of whether the AT&T TV Now virtual MVPD has been shown to be effective competition as laid out in the Communications Act,…
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the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable told the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday (in Pacer, docket 19-2282). It's challenging the FCC's effective competition order covering parts of the state and Hawaii (see 1912230063). The FCC's interpretation of the terms of the LEC test are contrary to the law, FCC rules and the plain text, MDTC said in the reply brief. The cost of broadband fits squarely into list of impediments that indicate a service doesn't satisfy the LEC test, it said. The FCC didn't comment.