AT&T/DirecTV Should Be Approved With Conditions, Says Cox
AT&T's planned buy of DirecTV should be granted only with conditions that “eliminate all regulatory advantages AT&T and DirecTV have enjoyed as putative upstart competitors to established rivals,” Cox Communications told an aide to FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel in an…
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April 2 meeting, according to an ex parte filing. The deal “will create a new company with unprecedented resources, diversity of service platforms, and household reach,” Cox said. The new company should be required to comply with the basic tier requirement that cable companies already face, and be prohibited from exclusive programming agreements, and demanding volume discounts from programmers, Cox said. The deal also should include conditions designed to prevent the new company from having “unfair competitive advantages in the bundled services market resulting from its control of the largest wireline and data network,” Cox said in docket 14-90.