Deny Charter Effective Competition Finding, Massachusetts DTC Says, Citing 'Channel'
Deny Charter Communications' petition that the FCC deem it faces effective competition, the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable (DTC) continues to ask the commission. Hawaii also opposes the cable company's request (see 1811280027). Charter wants out of local regulation…
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in some Massachusetts franchise areas and in Kauai, Hawaii, citing DirecTV Now (see 1809170020). The DTC wants to clarify the definition of a channel in this instance remains the same as under the LEC effective competition test. There's "no discretion to apply a new, different meaning of channel to the LEC Test’s comparable-programming requirement," the department wrote Thursday in docket 18-283. That test requires an LEC provide at least 12 channels of video programming as "channel" is defined, DTC added. "Charter has not carried its burden of demonstrating that AT&T’s DIRECTV NOW offers channels." Charter declined to comment.