Charter's Cable Modem Rental Needs To Be Severed From Internet Service, Zoom Says
Either stop Charter Communications from buying Bright House Networks and Time Warner Cable or make Charter unbundle its cable modem rental prices from its Internet service and offer it at an unsubsidized price, Zoom Telephonics said in an FCC ex…
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parte filing posted Tuesday in docket 15-149. It recapped a meeting between the company's outside counsel and a variety of Media and Wireline bureau and Office of the General Counsel staff at which Zoom repeated the case it has made before in the FCC review of the $89.1 billion set of deals (see 1511130021). A ruling putting those unbundling and anti-subsidy requirements on Charter "will not require a complicated regulatory structure," Zoom said. Charter didn't comment.