Notice of Ex Parte Meeting, Applications of Charter Communications, Inc., Time Warner Cable Inc., and Advance/Newhouse Partnership for Consent to Assignor Transfer Control of Licenses and Authorizations, MB Docket No. 15-149
Representatives of INCOMPAS, NTCA—The Rural Broadband Association, and Rocket Fiber on March 7, 2016, met with Jonathan Sallet, Owen Kendler, Adam Copeland, Betsy McIntyre, Susan Singer, and Kiley Naas of the Federal Communications Commission regarding the above-referenced docket. Ms. Bloomfield, representing NTCA, discussed how NTCA members (small, community-based telecommunications companies in primarily rural areas) would benefit from a video programming purchasing cooperative. Many NTCA members lose money on the video side of their businesses. These losses create a barrier for such companies to invest and further build out their broadband plants. Absent a condition that Charter join INCOMPAS’s proposed video programming purchasing cooperative, NTCA opposes Charter’s application.