Competition from satellite pay-TV operators has had a “minuscule impact...
Competition from satellite pay-TV operators has had a “minuscule impact on curbing the market power of incumbent cable operators,” Montgomery County, Md., said in an opposition to Comcast’s petition to the FCC to be let out of local rate regulation…
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in that area. “The Commission should no longer make findings of effective competition based on DBS penetration alone,” the county said. “To do so would go against the Commission’s obligation to grant relief only when it would serve the public interest.” It urged the FCC to deny Comcast’s petition and to consider suspending its rules that allow for a finding of effective competition based solely on DBS-operator penetration. The commission took a similar step recently in suspending some special access competitive showings “because they turned out not to be accurate indicators of competitive pressures sufficient to constrain prices,” the county said.