The FCC Media Bureau granted a Time Warner...
The FCC Media Bureau granted a Time Warner Cable petition Tuesday to exempt it from municipal rate-setting for basic-video and some other prices for the island of Hawaii, said a Media Bureau order (http://bit.ly/1bGRU7p). TWC’s petition cited video competition from…
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DirecTV and Dish Network. Hawaii’s Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs had objected to TWC’s petition, saying TWC didn’t face sufficient competition and challenging the cable company’s subscriber numbers. But the bureau ruled that sufficient evidence for “both prongs of the competing provider test” had been submitted, and ruled in TWC’s favor. The deregulation affects just under 66,000 households on the island.