Time Warner Cable should be relieved by the FCC from video...
Time Warner Cable should be relieved by the FCC from video rate regulation in Oahu, Hawaii, because Hawaiian Telcom’s nascent video service there is having early success, the cable operator said. Enclosing a Hawaiian Telcom SEC filing with video figures,…
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Time Warner Cable said the commission’s threshold for such deregulation is “clearly met” because of the telco’s service. Hawaii and the telco oppose the cable operator’s request (CD Feb 22 p15). “Hawaiian Telcom is the incumbent local exchange carrier in Oahu with a fully built out physical network connected to virtually all the homes in Oahu,” Time Warner Cable said Tuesday in docket 12-1 (http://xrl.us/bnasze). “Given the availability of its video service to at least 13.25 percent of the homes in Oahu, given the brisk pace of its ongoing deployment, and given its legally binding buildout obligations with the state,” there’s effective video competition, the filing continued.