Mediacom Gets FCC Rate Deregulation in Minnesota City
Granite Falls, Minnesota, can't regulate the basic-cable rates of Mediacom, an FCC Media Bureau order said Friday. It denied the city's opposition to the cable operator's effective competition petition. The bureau agreed with the company that it "sufficiently demonstrated that…
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DBS subscribership exceeds more than 15 percent in Granite Falls," a prong of the effective competition threshold. The city's assertion that DBS competition doesn't restrain cable prices "lacks merit as the statutory effective competition test does not permit a determination of whether one form of video competition is more effective than another in keeping rates reasonable for the public," the order said. Also last week, the bureau agreed with Comcast and Time Warner Cable in other Minnesota and Ohio communities where the municipalities had objected (see 1602180042).