Court of Appeals Rejects FCC's Cable Subscriber Cap

olsmeister writes "The US Court of Appeals Friday threw out the FCC's cap on the number of cable subscribers one operator can serve, saying the FCC was 'derelict' in not giving DBS its due as a legitimate competitor. 'We agree with Comcast that the 30% subscriber limit is arbitrary and capricious. We therefore grant the petition and vacate the Rule,' said the court, which concluded that there was ample evidence of an increasingly competitive communications marketplace and that cable did not have undue control on the programming pipeline. The FCC commissioner's statement (PDF) is available online."

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Re:Some links

[UdoKeir]

Looks like it was a panel of Republican appointees. Hardly surprising they come out on the side of the corporations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_H._Ginsburg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Raymond_Randolph