The FCC wants comment on Time Warner Cable’s request to end the...
The FCC wants comment on Time Warner Cable’s request to end the remaining condition on the company contained in a 2001 order approving AOL’s purchase of Time Warner Inc., then TWC’s parent. The curb barred the cable operator from discriminating…
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on the basis of affiliation against other ISPs seeking to sell Internet service on Time Warner Cable’s systems. “This condition remains in place,” a public notice Tuesday said (http://xrl.us/bnbkgg). In January the commission freed Time Warner Inc. of other conditions, and invited Time Warner Cable to likewise request that the Web condition be killed, which the operator did two months later (CD March 12 p12). “Time Warner, AOL, and TWC are three separate, independent companies given the corporate restructuring,” according to the operator, the notice said. “TWC has no ability to favor AOL over unaffiliated broadband ISPs since AOL does not operate as a broadband ISP.” Comments are due July 12, replies July 27 in docket 00-30.