Charter Has More Interconnection Power, Incompas Tells FCC
Charter Communications' interconnection market power seems to have increased since its buy of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, so the FCC's finding in approving that deal that Charter would be able to extract excessive interconnection fees is still…
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true, Incompas officials told an aide to Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, said a docket 16-197 ex parte posting Wednesday. Incompas said the flourishing online video distribution market makes it even more likely Charter would extract access fees if the TWC/BHN merger conditions were lifted as Charter asks (see 2006180050). It said the FCC should gather more evidence about how the interconnection market has been affected by conditions on Charter and on AT&T/Time Warner, and by FCC oversight of interconnection agreements during the net neutrality regime. Charter didn't comment.