Dish Tries To Reinforce Case That New Charter Would Be bad for OTT Market
Looking to shore up its argument that New Charter won't have any reason not to throttle over-the-top competition, Dish Network submitted additional broadband customer churn data analysis Wednesday to FCC docket 15-149. The filing supplemented a Charter/Time Warner Cable/Bright House…
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Networks churn rate analysis in which William Zarakas of economics consulting firm Brattle Group argued the companies didn't suffer worse churn rates due to past Netflix throttling (see 1601200043). New regression analyses reinforce and strengthen that finding, Zarakas said in the new, heavily redacted Dish filing. Charter has said online video distributors are a complement to its broadband business, which flies in the face of the Dish argument, and also noted Netflix supports Charter/TWC/BHN.