More Commenting Time Needed on Charter Conditions, Incompas Says
A 30-day comment period, not a 14-day one, is needed to get input on ramifications of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit's ruling on conditions on Charter Communications (see 2008140040) and what it means for other conditions from the Time Warner Cable/Bright House Networks deal. That's per Incompas in a docket 16-197 post Wednesday, as it also said there needs to be comment on Charter waiting until the reply round on the proceeding asking for a sunset of conditions to provide an economic analysis. The Free State Foundation said just because the D.C. Circuit didn't touch the FCC's usage-based pricing condition on Charter doesn't mean the court backed those data caps, just that it and other plaintiffs didn't have legal standing to challenge the data caps.