No matter how DBS subscriber figures are sliced for Hawaii’s Big...
No matter how DBS subscriber figures are sliced for Hawaii’s Big Island, at least 15 percent of households there buy satellite services, Time Warner Cable said. It replied to the state’s opposition (CD March 27 p12) to the operator’s FCC…
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petition for rate deregulation. “None of the arguments or alternative calculations put forth by the State rebut Time Warner Cable’s showing that DBS penetration in the East Hawaii franchise area is well in excess of the 15 percent statutory threshold,” the company said. “Even applying every conceivable downward adjustment to this figure, the state acknowledges that DBS provider penetration in the East Hawaii franchise area is at a bare minimum 15.86 percent.” For the West Hawaii franchise, “the State’s arguments and proffered adjustments turn a simple process into a complicated mess of factoring and estimating,” the company said in a filing posted Tuesday to docket 12-8 (http://xrl.us/bm4ybd). “Of the 26,257 occupied households in the Hawaii West franchise area, 4,558 (3,745 + 813) are confirmed DBS subscribers, indicating a penetration rate of 17.36 percent."