Amerian Cable Association Pushes FCC to End Charter's Overbuild Condition

The American Cable Association has filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission on behalf of 38 small and mid-sized Internet service providers asking the FCC to remove the overbuild condition in the Charter-Time Warner Cable merger.

"[W]e all have plans to invest in improved network technologies to offer greater performance or to expand our networks into unserved areas. Unfortunately, the merger condition requiring Charter to overbuild other providers has undermined those plans to provide improved services and reach new customers," the ISPs told the FCC. "We write to encourage the Commission to act in the best interests of millions of unserved and underserved customers by eliminating the overbuild condition." The letter went to all three commissioners, but ACA is definitely preaching to the choir when it comes to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and likely Commissioner Michael O'Rielly.