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ITTA Supports Effective Competition Rebuttable Presumption

The FCC should move forward with the proposal to presume that all cable companies face effective competition, said ITTA in separate presentations to aides to Chairman Tom Wheeler and Commissioners Mike O’Rielly, Ajit Pai and Jessica Rosenworcel on Wednesday and…

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Thursday, according to an ex parte filing posted Monday in docket 15-53. “Opponents of reversing the presumption have provided no evidence of consumer harm in the more than ten thousand communities throughout the United States that already have been found to face effective competition." Friday, Wheeler's office circulated a draft order that would presume all cable operators face effective competition (see 1505150035).