Dish Lobbies FCC About Concerns on Comcast/TWC
Dish Network again said Comcast's planned buy of Time Warner Cable presents serious competitive concerns for the broadband and video markets and should be denied. The combined company would control half of the broadband pipes in the U.S. that have…
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speeds of at least 25 Mbps, Dish said Thursday in an ex parte filing in docket 14-57. The company also “will be on a path to virtual dominance of the high-speed broadband market” because it will pass close to 70 percent of pay-TV households, it said. If the deal is approved, the company would offer only a single over-the-top service, “or perhaps forego altogether launching a nationwide OTT service, thus depriving consumers of important competitive choices,” it said. No conditions “would remedy the serious competitive harms posed by this merger,” Dish said. The filing pertained to meetings with several FCC staff, including from the Media Bureau, Chairman Tom Wheeler’s office and Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel.