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TWC Inadvertently Gave FCC Incorrect Broadband Speed Data

Time Warner Cable inadvertently submitted erroneous broadband speed data in several of its submissions to the FCC in connection with the Comcast/TWC transaction, TWC said in a letter posted online in docket 14-57 Thursday. The error affected data for some…

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residential areas that were upgraded to TWC's higher-speed Maxx broadband offering in 2014, TWC said. “Legacy bandwidth tags in TWC’s billing database needed to be translated to accurately reflect upgraded speeds, but that translation inadvertently was not performed when TWC extracted data in preparing its responses,” TWC said. That caused the data submitted by TWC to understate the number of broadband connections “at certain speed thresholds,” TWC said. TWC submitted corrected data in a redacted attachment, the letter said.