New Jersey Effective Competition Fight Denied by FCC Members
When determining if a community has effective cable competition, it's not necessary that census household data and direct broadcast satellite subscriber data be contemporaneous with one another, said an FCC order Wednesday denying a New Jersey Division of Rate Counsel…
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(DRC) application for review of a previous Media Bureau order. DRC appealed a bureau order granting a Time Warner Cable petition seeking determination that five New Jersey communities were subject to effective competition. FCC members said the bureau order satisfied the agency's competing provider test and dismissed DRC arguments against using five-digit ZIP code household data instead of ZIP code+4 household data. Charter Communications now owns TWC. The state didn't comment Thursday.