TWC Gets FCC Rate Deregulation in Ohio Communities
An array of Ohio communities can't regulate Time Warner Cable basic rates, the FCC Media Bureau said in an order Monday. It rejected opposition from the villages of Cleves and North Bend that data TWC used regarding ZIP codes was…
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flawed, because Cleves didn't given any evidence of data flaws or suggest a better method. The Media Bureau said North Bend's assertion that TWC inflated the DBS subscriber count "advocates conflicting approaches" and said there's no basis to question the accuracy of the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association data TWC used. The order covers more than 15,000 households, the largest of which was Deerfield. TWC separately had sought a finding of low penetration effective competition for the village of Ripley based on its serving only 30 percent of the households there -- a petition the FCC also granted. The FCC in recent weeks has issued orders finding effective competition in numerous communities in Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Virginia and Washington (see 1602190036, 1602240037, 1602180042 and 1601220003).