Comcast asked the FCC Media Bureau to reconsider its decision last...
Comcast asked the FCC Media Bureau to reconsider its decision last month to allow the city of Boston to regulate Comcast’s basic service rates again, as it had promised to do (CD April 10 p1). The petition would stay the…
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effectiveness of the bureau’s April order and allow Comcast to update the record with a new analysis of how much competition among pay-TV distributors exists in Boston. “The updated analysis confirms that Comcast continues to face effective competition in Boston,” it said in its petition (http://xrl.us/bm6uof). Add up the subscribers of RCN and the two satellite providers and competing providers serve more than the threshold 15 percent of households in the Boston franchise area necessary to waive Boston’s basic rate regulation authority, it said.