Time Warner Cable said the Massachusetts Department of...
Time Warner Cable said the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable showed no valid reason for the FCC Media Bureau to reject the company’s request for video-rate deregulation in three Massachusetts communities. DTC’s concerns (CD May 2 p12), that DBS…
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subscriber data from the Satellite Broadcasting & Communications Association (SBCA) make it seem like the operator has more competition than really faced, “have absolutely no foundation,” the company said. “The Bureau has for over 15 years accepted the accuracy of SBCA’s DBS Provider subscriber counts in the effective competition context, repeatedly rejecting speculative attacks on such data after a cable operator has made its prima facie showing that the 15 percent threshold has been exceeded” of subscribership to other pay-TV companies in a franchise area, the filing said. DTC’s “attack” that the data includes “seasonal/vacation/temporary accounts” is “entirely speculative,” the company said in the reply Thursday in docket 13-92 (http://bit.ly/12jvYIn).