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Cox, Comcast Oppose Effective Competition Consideration Pause

Comcast and Cox Communications are fighting a Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable request that the FCC delay considering the cable operators' effective competition petitions in the state (see 2001140050). Comcast posted a motion for abeyance that a pause would…

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constrain its ability to compete and saddle it with administrative costs competitors don't bear, Wednesday in docket 19-385. Cox's docket 20-10 opposition took issue with MDTC not seeking FCC reconsideration of the agency's Charter Communications effective competition order (see 1910250036) and then appealing the Charter order with the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (see 1912230063) after Cox submitted its petition. That "impose[d] substantial and unjustifiable harm" on it, Cox said. MDTC didn't comment.