Retrans Fee Could Kill FTTH Plans, Says Cincinnati Bell Complaint
Cox Media's WHIO-TV Dayton, Ohio, by demanding Cincinnati Bell's altafiber pay a per-subscriber retransmission consent fee even for broadband-only subs, will halt or scale back construction of a fiber-to-the-home system to 135,000 Dayton households, altafiber said in a docket 12-1…
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retransmission consent complaint posted Tuesday. Retrans consent fees on broadband subscribers who aren't getting a retransmission forecloses competition and puts altafiber "at a significant competitive disadvantage" as it tries to enter a new market, since that fee isn't being asked of incumbent providers, it said. Cox Media didn't comment.