Cable operators filing FCC Form 1240 can raise rates 1.89% for la...
Cable operators filing FCC Form 1240 can raise rates 1.89% for last quarter, the FCC said. The Q3 inflation adjustment figure compares to 3.31% in the year ago period. The figure applies to the “non-external cost portion of their…
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rates for inflation,” said a Media Bureau public notice. On another cable rate subject, an FCC staffer said commissioners didn’t appear to be concerned that Chmn. Martin decided to stop using a benchmark figure in the most recent rate survey. The survey, covering Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2004, said it excluded the cost per channel because customers can’t buy individual networks (CD Dec 28 p7). Some executives have pointed to that figure as a better measure of rates because it partly accounts for additional services customers get; NCTA has said it favors scrapping the report entirely. There wasn’t 8th-floor discussion about the decision to exclude the per- channel figure, said a Commission staffer. Commissioners’ attention was drawn to the video franchise order, voted on Dec. 20 along with the rate survey, the person said: “We didn’t really spend time focusing on that.” By the time the report was released Wed., it was old news because it had been ready -- at least in draft form -- since Feb., said the official.