CPUC Denies Charter Rehearing on TWC/BHN Conditions
Charter Communications lost a fight over California regulatory process for the company’s acquisitions of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. Charter voluntarily committed to service-quality and accessibility requirements in March, but the California Public Utilities Commission didn’t include the…
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conditions in the ordering paragraph of its May decision approving the deal, adding them in December after the nudging of the Office of Ratepayer Advocates (ORA) and Center for Accessible Technology (see 1701130057). Charter claimed due-process violations and sought rehearing. In a decision released Monday, the CPUC disagreed and denied Charter’s protest. The December order “did not add new conditions beyond those already known to the parties and contemplated” in the May decision, and its purpose “was to clarify what the Commission had always intended to mandate” in the May OK, the CPUC said. The company declined comment.