Charter‘s strategy in seeking a waiver from the integration ban for low-cost set tops includes tapping the FCC‘s desire to increase broadband deployment to rural areas. A waiver "is critical to the success of the digital transition and broadband deployment in the small-town and rural America communities served by Charter," wrote pres/CEO Neil Smit in a Wed letter to FCC chmn Kevin Martin. Smit argues in the letter that 75% of the MSO’s systems meet the FCC’s definition of a small system, and claims that most of Charter’s systems pass an avg of 55 homes/mile, or "a low density that is more characteristic of a rural system."

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Another day, another pole attachment complaint. This time Wired or Wireless, Inc. (WOW) and energy company Avista Corp. are at war, not just over the attachment conditions, but on whether the FCC has any jurisdiction in their dispute.

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