Comcast’s “disregard” for the effects of Superstorm Sandy in its...
Comcast’s “disregard” for the effects of Superstorm Sandy in its FCC pleadings to be let out of local rate regulation in some New Jersey communities is “appalling,” the New Jersey Division of Rate Counsel said in its latest filing in…
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the docket (http://bit.ly/Y2NxHg). The state asked the FCC to dismiss Comcast’s effective competition petition on the grounds that the cable operator’s use of confidential Verizon FiOS subscriber data violated the terms of a Justice Department consent decree related to the sale of some spectrum licenses and that it ignored the effects of the storm on subscriber levels (CD Feb 11 p5). “Indeed the Commission heard direct testimony from New Jersey and New York on the consequences of this massive storm,” it said. “Yet Comcast says in effect ’so what’ -- the rules are static and a static result they must yield.” The FCC should reject that notion and require Comcast to file its petition anew with current data, the division said.