Boston opposed Comcast’s request for the FCC Media Bureau (CD May...
Boston opposed Comcast’s request for the FCC Media Bureau (CD May 10 p15) to reverse a decision to again let the city regulate the company’s cable rates. Boston also sought a waiver so that the commission won’t include RCN’s subscribers…
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there as counting toward competing video provider figures, which must pass 15 percent of households to meet a commission effective-competition threshold. “For over a decade,” the agency prevented the city “from regulating Comcast’s cable service rates because it believed that RCN offered service in the City that limited Comcast’s ability to charge excessive rates,” Boston said in its opposition (http://xrl.us/bm9ak3). “Unfortunately, this proved to be incorrect, and it led to serious, negative consequences for Boston’s consumers.” Boston disagreed with Comcast that the agency must count both DBS and RCN subscriber figures. “Because the Commission has concluded [in April] that RCN does not ‘offer’ service” as Section 76.905(f) of the Code of Federal Regulations defines it, “it certainly may conclude that households subscribing to ’services offered’ by the company should also be excluded from the test,” the waiver petition said (http://xrl.us/bm9amw). Both of Wednesday’s documents are in docket 12-1.