Federal Communications Commission DA 07-876
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Before the
Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
In the Matter of
MCC Iowa LLC
Petition for Determination of Effective Competition
Jo Daviess, IL
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CSR-6858-E
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER 
Adopted:  February 27, 2007 Released:  February 28, 2007
By the Deputy Chief, Policy Division, Media Bureau:
I. INTRODUCTION
1. MCC Iowa LLC (“Mediacom”) has filed a petition with the Commission pursuant to 
Sections 76.7, 76.905(b)(1) and 76.907 of the Commission’s rules for a determination that Mediacom’s 
cable system serving the unincorporated, unnamed area of Jo Daviess County, Illinois is subject to 
effective competition pursuant to Section 623(a)(1) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended 
(“Communications Act”) and is therefore exempt from cable rate regulation.1 No opposition to the 
petition was filed. We grant the petition finding that Mediacom is subject to effective competition in this 
franchise area. 
2. In the absence of a demonstration to the contrary, cable systems are presumed not to be 
subject to effective competition,2 as the term is defined by Section 623(l) of the Communications Act of 
1934, as amended, and Section 76.905 of the Commission’s rules.3 The cable operator bears the burden 
of rebutting the presumption that effective competition does not exist with evidence that effective 
competition is present within the relevant franchise area.4
II. DISCUSSION
3. Section 623(l)(1)(A) of the Communications Act provides that the cable operator is 
subject to effective competition, and therefore exempt from cable rate regulation, if “fewer than 30 
  
1 47 C.F.R. §§ 76.7, 76.905(b)(1), 76.907; 47 U.S.C. § 543(a)(1).  
2 47 C.F.R. § 76.906.
3 See 47 U.S.C. § 543 (l); 47 C.F.R. § 76.905.
4 See 47 C.F.R. §§ 76.906 & 76.907.
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percent of the households in the franchise area subscribe to the cable service of the cable system.”5  
Mediacom has provided information showing that in Jo Daviess County, Mediacom has 289 subscribers 
and the 2000 Census indicates that there are 9,218 households in Jo Daviess County.6 Therefore 3.14 
percent of the occupied households in Jo Daviess are Mediacom subscribers.7  Accordingly, we conclude 
that Mediacom has demonstrated the existence of low penetration effective competition under our rules in 
the franchise area.
4. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that the petition filed by MCC Iowa LLC for a 
determination of effective competition in the unincorporated, unnamed area of Jo Daviess County, Illinois 
IS GRANTED.
5. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the certification to regulate basic cable service rates 
in the franchise area IS REVOKED.
6. This action is taken pursuant to delegated authority pursuant to Section 0.283 of the 
Commission’s rules.8
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Steven A. Broeckaert
Deputy Chief, Policy Division, Media Bureau
  
5 47 U.S.C. § 543(1)(1)(A).
6 Mediacom Petition at 2 and Exhibit A.  Mediacom states that for purposes of this petition, the Mediacom 
subscriber number is an estimate derived from Mediacom’s billing system using addresses to which Mediacom 
provides service.  Id. at n.3.   
7 Mediacom Petition at 2.
8 47 C.F.R. § 0.283.