Cable operators escaped basic rate regulation in about 100 munici...
Cable operators escaped basic rate regulation in about 100 municipalities with a total of 1.5 million homes, via FCC orders released Wednesday. The orders said the companies face sufficient video competition in those locales, mostly from DirecTV and Dish…
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Network. The nine Media Bureau orders found Bright House, Comcast, Charter, Cox, Mediacom and Time Warner Cable subject to effective competition in Detroit, St. Louis, and other cities, as well as towns and counties in Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Illinois and four more states. The batch was the widest-ranging such release of orders in one day for at least three years (CD Sept 29/05 p1), gauged by number of municipalities and number of households. NCTA had asked the FCC to reduce a petition backlog that at one point reached into the hundreds, some dating back years. NCTA declined to comment, said a spokeswoman. Last week FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told reporters that during his tenure the agency had approved 100 orders. “I've told the bureau to continue to process them and move them through,” he said March 20: “I'm sure there are still a couple hundred down there.”