Media Bureau Dismisses NAB, NATOA Cable Effective Competition Challenge

With a federal appellate court last year shooting down a petition seeking a review of the FCC 2015 order finding the cable industry is effectively competitive, a petition for reconsideration before the agency was dismissed, the Media Bureau said in a docket 15-53 order Monday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in July denied the NAB, NATOA and the Northern Dakota County Cable Communications Commission petition for reconsideration (see 1707070013). That makes the FCC petition moot, the bureau said.