RCN again told the FCC it’s concerned about the commercial...
RCN again told the FCC it’s concerned about the commercial arrangements between Verizon Wireless and several top cable operators (http://xrl.us/bnmo3m) that accompany those parties’ proposed spectrum deal. The Justice Department’s proposed final judgment (CD Aug 17 p1) on the deal…
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falls short of preventing competitive harm from those agreements, RCN said. The FCC should prohibit Verizon Wireless from selling the cable companies’ services in any designated market area (DMA) where FiOS is “authorized to be offered to at least 10 percent of the residences” or at least in any Zip Code adjacent to another where FiOS is offered or authorized to be offered, it said. The commission should bar Verizon from regional advertising of cable services in those DMAs, RCN said. In those DMAs, Verizon Wireless stores should be prohibited from providing any information about the cable companies’ services “apart from referring customers to Internet sites or providing toll-free numbers,” the cable operator said. The FCC should clarify the definition of “FiOS Footprint” so that a franchise agreement to build FiOS in the District of Columbia is not a statewide franchise agreement, RCN said. It said Verizon Wireless and the cable companies should be required to license technology developed by the joint operating entity (JOE) set up by the deal on commercially reasonable and nondiscriminatory rates within six months of when JOE members can access the technology.