The FCC should recognize that Section 652(b) of the Telecom...
The FCC should recognize that Section 652(b) of the Telecom Act “clearly limits mergers between cable companies and all local telephone companies within their respective service areas,” said the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors in a meeting with…
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FCC officials, a Monday filing recounted (http://xrl.us/bndrv9). NATOA Executive Director Steve Traylor wrote that he expressed “our continued objection that the” Wireline Bureau “consider negating the rights of local franchising authorities in these types of transactions by granting NCTA’s request for forbearance from applying Section 652(b) to transactions dealing with CLEAs or, at the least, from requiring LFA approval.” There’s “nothing to date” supporting NCTA’s position, Traylor wrote, citing that only one cable company has ever been documented seeking a waiver of Section 652. The commission will grant NCTA’s petition by September “in the absence of a commission denial of the petition for failure to meet the statutory standards for forbearance,” the commission said in a May 30 order (CD June 1 p19).