By Paul Kurtz, KYW
Comcast has won a court battle with the FCC over the number of subscribers a cable company is allowed to serve.
In throwing out the 30 percent cap on subscribers, The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit calls the FCC’s rule arbitrary and capricious and notes that the agency [...]

By Cary O’Reilly and Todd Shields, Bloomberg
Comcast Corp., the biggest U.S. cable-television provider, won a legal victory as a court threw out a rule limiting cable companies to 30 percent of the market.
The Federal Communications Commission failed to fully consider competition from companies such as DirecTV Group Inc. and Dish Network Corp., the U.S. [...]

By Deborah Yao, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — An appeals court overturned a rule that said a cable TV company could not serve more than 30 percent of the nation’s subscribers. The verdict Friday was a victory for the largest cable company, Comcast Corp., which has 25 percent share and sued to block the rule.
It was an [...]

By Jeremy Pelofsky and John Poirier, Reuters
WASHINGTON – A U.S. court struck down a rule limiting a cable company to no more than 30 percent of the pay television market, a victory for companies like Comcast Corp that could spark a wave of industry mergers.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled [...]

The U.S. Court Of Appeals Agrees With Comcast Calling Sub Limit ‘Arbitrary And Capricious’
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News
Comcast and the cable industry have won a big victory in court.
The U.S. Court of Appeals Friday threw out the FCC’s cap on the number of cable subsribers one operator can serve, saying the FCC was “derelict” in [...]

By Fawn Johnson, Dow Jones
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–A federal court on Friday vacated a rule from the Federal Communications Commission dictating that cable operators can’t serve more than 30% of subscribers in a single market, stating the cap is “arbitrary and capricious.”
The unusual decision is a victory for Comcast Corp. (CMCSA), which challenged the rule, as [...]

Andrew Jay Schwartzman, President and CEO of Media Access Project, has issued the following statement in response to today’s U.S. Court of Appeals decision vacating the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) rules limiting the number of cable TV systems any one company can own:
“I’m disappointed, but not surprised. Although Congress directed the FCC to establish [...]

Andrew Jay Schwartzman, President and CEO of Media Access Project (MAP), made the following statement regarding the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to examine wireless competition at its public meeting, to be held today:
“This investigation is long overdue. The country’s four major wireless providers have enjoyed the fruits of market power for too [...]

MAP President and CEO Andrew Jay Schwartzman presents a proposal for Diversifying Access to Digital TV Spectrum to the FCC’s En Banc Meeting

By Matt Wood, American Constitution Society Blog guest post
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski delivered in a big way this morning on one of the key technology and telecommunications policy promises from the Obama campaign. Genachowski announced, in a speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., that his agency would “take steps to preserve [...]