Hawaii’s dominant telco criticized the state’s top cable operator for...
Hawaii’s dominant telco criticized the state’s top cable operator for tactics that it said hurt video competition, expressing concerns on the sale by that operator and three others of advanced wireless services licenses to Verizon Wireless. Time Warner Cable’s Oceanic…
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unit uses “below cost pricing tactics” that “exclude nascent competition from Hawaiian Telcom in the video market in Hawaii,” that telco said. Hawaiian Telcom Communications Inc. told FCC officials reviewing the Verizon Wireless AWS deals it fears “Oceanic Time Warner Cable would be able to further entrench its uniquely high monopoly share of the video market in Hawaii through the proposed transactions,” said an ex parte filing. Hawaiian Telcom said it wants to keep “a level playing field for the sale of wireless backhaul to Verizon Wireless, especially in light of the increased need that Verizon Wireless will have for backhaul in light of its acquisition of spectrum if the license transfer is approved and in avoiding an extension of the exclusivity that Oceanic Time Warner Cable has in Hawaii over certain programming to Verizon Wireless.” A spokesman for the cable operator had no comment on Monday’s filing in docket 12-4 (http://xrl.us/bmxz5e). The telco recently began selling video in Hawaii, where Time Warner Cable has a regional sports network (CD Jan 9 p5).