At the Portals
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| January 3, 2006
A bevy of effective competition rulings from the FCC’s Media Bureau, exempting MSOs from local rate regulation. The FCC decided Comcast had EC in 42 TX LFAs; Charter, Service Electric and Mediacom had it in several midwest markets. — Time Warner Cable Info Service’s sale of certain assets to Verizon Southwest was approved. — The 6 largest MSOs deployed more than 84K CableCARDS (from summer ’04-Nov 30 ’05), NCTA said.