Charter Rejects New CPUC Conditions on TWC/BHN Buys
Charter Communications attacked additional conditions on its buys of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks that were added last month by the California Public Utilities Commission. Commissioners unanimously gave the deal the green light in May, but Dec. 19…
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revised the order to add some conditions sought by consumer groups in rehearing applications (see 1612190021). The consumer groups claimed Charter agreed to the conditions -- on service quality, semiannual reports to Office of Ratepayer Advocates, a customer service survey and communications with customers with disabilities -- but the commission forgot to include them in its order. In an application for rehearing posted Friday, Charter said the decision “unreasonably imposes seven new conditions upon Charter in addition to the numerous conditions imposed” in the May decision. The commission already rejected the conditions sought by the consumer groups, Charter said. “The Decision’s revision, issued seven months after D.16-05-007, constitutes legal error that now should be corrected in a subsequent decision on rehearing.”