The FCC was asked to dismiss Comcast’s request for deregulation...
The FCC was asked to dismiss Comcast’s request for deregulation in Buena and other New Jersey municipalities by the state agency representing consumers in telecom matters. The operator’s Media Bureau effective competition petition (http://xrl.us/bniepw) cites confidential data on the number…
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of Verizon’s pay-TV customers in the area that can’t be accessed by other parties to the matter, the New Jersey Division of Rate Counsel said in a filing posted Thursday to docket 12-165. “The failure of Comcast to secure an FCC sanctioned protective order ... renders the filing defective,” the division said (http://xrl.us/bniep2). “Rate Counsel and all other interested parties including the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities and the local municipalities lack access to the data, which precludes filing of appropriate comments.” A Comcast spokeswoman had no comment. Time Warner Cable separately said the bureau should deny a request by Kenosha, Wis., to not revoke the city’s ability to regulate that operator’s video rates there. The company clarified it’s now only seeking deregulation on the basis it faces pay-TV competition from a LEC, and the city’s objections on other grounds “can be disregarded,” said a Thursday reply in docket 12-172 (http://xrl.us/bnieqe). “Each of the elements of the LEC Test have been demonstrated and confirmed.” Local franchise authorities and others rarely oppose effective competition petitions (CD June 5 p4).