FCC granted waiver of its rules defining systems subject to small...
FCC granted waiver of its rules defining systems subject to small system rate relief for Caribbean Communications Corp. Rule allows rate relief for systems with no more than 15,000 subscribers and a small cable company is defined as serving…
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total of 400,000 or fewer subscribers in all of its systems. Caribbean’s system has 15,985 subscribers and its parent company, Innovative Communications Corp., easily qualifies as small cable company, Commission said. Part of Caribbean’s argument was that it only slightly exceeds 15,000 subscriber threshold. FCC agreed, saying it was in public interest to grant waiver because Caribbean shares many characteristics of small system.