ACA Sees Unanimity on Opposition to New Charter's Overbuild Requirement
One thing seemingly everyone agrees on is American Cable Association's petition to the FCC urging it to rethink its New Charter broadband network overbuild condition, ACA said in a reply comment to be posted Tuesday in docket 15-149. "No one…
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denies that, far from mitigating the merger-specific concerns raised by the Order, the overbuild condition would exacerbate them." ACA urged the FCC to strike the overbuild condition on the approval of Charter Communications buying Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks: "Nor does anyone suggest that the Order anywhere addresses the harms the overbuild condition imposes." The group said it agreed with New Charter that if the FCC strikes the overbuild condition, the deal-related transfers still are in the public interest. ACA is one of several parties that petitioned for reconsideration of New Charter conditions, with some seeing the association planning to take the agency to court if administrative options are unsuccessful (see 1606100043).