The FCC should deny a Charter Communications petition to be...
The FCC should deny a Charter Communications petition to be let out of local rate regulation in five Massachusetts franchise areas, the state’s Department of Telecommunications and Cable (MDTC) said in a filing Monday. The state said the methodology Charter…
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used to show it’s subject to effective competition in the areas was inadequate. The data Charter submitted fail to show that satellite providers “have a sufficiently high level of subscribership in the Franchise Area to overcome the presumption against effective competition,” it said. Charter’s data show overall pay-TV penetration in one of the areas exceeding 100 percent, the MDTC said. Moreover, Charter “cannot dispute that it included some DBS subscribers” in the tally of its competitors’ penetration but excluded them from the number of overall households, the MDTC said. That caused “DBS provider penetration rates to appear higher than they actually are,” it said.