Massachusetts joined Boston in asking the FCC to reject (CD May 25...
Massachusetts joined Boston in asking the FCC to reject (CD May 25 p16) Comcast’s request that the FCC Media Bureau overturn the bureau’s finding that the company is no longer exempt from video rate regulation in the city. “The methodology…
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used to collect the data Comcast submitted in support of the Petition is inadequate” because the cable operator “failed to make the additional showing that RCN and the DBS providers ... have a sufficiently high level of subscribership in Boston to overcome the presumption against effective competition,” the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable said. “The methodology used to collect the data Comcast submitted in support of the Petition produced artificially inflated competing provider penetration rates in Boston.” The opposition to Comcast’s petition for reconsideration was posted Wednesday in docket 12-1 (http://xrl.us/bm9x7v).