Granting a Montgomery County, Md., request that the FCC ignore...
Granting a Montgomery County, Md., request that the FCC ignore (CD Dec 13 p23) local subscriber data about DBS operators when considering a cable operator’s effective competition petition would go against “the governing effective competition test … and prior Commission…
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rulings,” Comcast said in a Media Bureau filing. Te Communications Act requires the FCC to consider competition from satellite providers when evaluating whether there’s sufficient competition in a local franchise area, Comcast said in a reply to the county’s opposition to the company’s petition to be let out of local rate regulation in some Montgomery County towns. “Congress did not leave open to discretion whether DBS service should or should not be counted under the Competing Provider Test,” Comcast said.