Most notably, it happens to fall on the eve of the inauguration of President-Elect Joe Biden and changes at the FCC that could arrive following the departure of current Commission chairman Ajit Pai. "In light of the ongoing severity of the global pandemic and its effects on our customers, we want to offer them the assurance that they will continue to benefit from unlimited access to broadband and the accompanying financial certainty it provides during these trying times, and therefore have withdrawn our petition."Ĭharter's decision to pull back the petition also enters the picture amid major changes to the US political landscape.
"In the months since this petition was filed according to the timeline and process outlined by the FCC in our Merger Order, a number of conditions have been met, nullified, or vacated by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals," Charter said in a statement. The FCC announced Charter's decision in a public notice posted Tuesday but did not elaborate on the reasoning behind Charter's decision.Ĭharter reasoned that activity at a DC court related to the FCC's merger order and the ongoing pandemic weighed into its decision. Those conditions kept the cable operator from implementing usage-based broadband policies, including the use of data caps, and striking paid peering deals. Charter Communications has dropped a petition asking the FCC to sunset conditions tied to its 2016 acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks.
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