The FCC shouldn’t accept Montgomery County’s surreply in a proceeding...
The FCC shouldn’t accept Montgomery County’s surreply in a proceeding to determine whether certain Comcast systems in the area are subject to effective competition, the cable operator said (http://xrl.us/bodpp3). The county had asked the commission to deny Comcast’s petition for…
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special relief and stop granting such findings of effective competition based solely on competition from DBS subscribers (CD Jan 4 p7). Comcast did not raise new arguments in its reply to the county’s opposition and the county’s motion for leave to file its surreply should be denied, the cable operator said. Moreover, “there is no latitude for the Commission to ignore ... unequivocal [statutory] language,” Comcast said. “Comcast is entitled to a prompt resolution... and the County’s Opposition and Surreply offer no credible grounds for either denial or delay,” it said.