Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
December 23, 2014
Via First Class & Electronic Mail
David A. Zapoisky
VP, General Counsel & Secretary
Amazon.com, Inc.
410 Terry Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98109-5210
Re: Applications of Comcast Corporation, Time Warner Cable Inc., Charter
Communications, Inc., Tim e Warner Entertainment-
Advance/Newhouse Partnership, and SpinCo for Consent to Assign
Licenses or Transfer Control of Licensees, MB Docket No. 14-5 7
Dear Mr. Zapoisky:
On April 8, 2014, Comcast Corporation ("Comcast") and Time Warner Cable Inc.
("TWC") submitted joint applications to the Commission seeking consent to transfer control of
various Commission licenses and other authorizations pursuant to Sections 214 and 310(d) of the
Communications Act of 1934, as amended ("Act"). The proposed Comcast-TWC transfers, if
completed, would effectuate the sale of certain cable systems and assets of TWC and its affiliates
and related entities to subsidiaries or affiliates of Comcast. Additionally, in connection with the
proposed Comcast-TWC transaction, TWC and Comcast have submitted applications for the
transfer to Comcast of TWE-A/N' s interest in licenses and other authorizations held by Bright
House Networks, LLC ("Bright House"). On June 4, 2014, Comcast, Charter Communications,
Inc. ("Charter"), and SpinCo (collectively, the "Divestiture Applicants") filed transfer applications
pursuant to Sections 214 and 310(d) of the Act to effectuate a series of transactions between
Comcast and Charter (collectively, the "Divestiture Transactions"). The Divestiture Applicants
claim that the Divestiture Transactions will result in a net reduction of approximately 3.9 million
residential video customers for the combined Corncast and TWC.'
In order for the Commission to complete its review of the applications and make the
necessary public interest findings under section 310(d) of the Communications Act, we require
information and data from other commercial wireline carriers aainst which the applicants compete.
Accordingly, pursuant to sections 4(i), 4(j), and 403 of the Act, we request that Amazon.com, Inc.
("Amazon") provide written responses, supporting documentation, and data, as applicable no later than
Friday, January 23,2015 to the information requests set forth in the Attachments. A m a z o n' s
response will be treated as confidential pursuant to the Protective Orders issued in MB Docket No,
Public Interest Statement of Comcast Corporation and Charter Communications, Inc., Charter-to-Comcast Exchange
Transaction, MB Docket No. 14-57 (June 4, 2014) ("Charter-to-Comcast Exchange Public Interest Statement"); Public
Interest Statement of Charter Communications, Inc. and Coin cast Corporation, Comcast-to-Chartem'Exchange and
Sale Transactions, MB Docket No. 14-57 (June 4, 2014) ("Comcast-to-Charter Sale/Exchange Public Interest
Statement"); SpinCo Public Interest Statement.
247 U.S.C. § 154(i), 154(j), and 403. See generally FCC v. Schreiber, 381 U.S. 279 (1965).
Letter to David A. Zapoisky
VP, General Counsel & Secretary
Amazon. corn, Inc.
December 23, 2014
Page 2.
14-57. For documents, data and narrative responses produced in response to this request
(electronic or otherwise), each page should be marked with a corporate identification and
consecutive document control numbers as specified in the attached instructions.
Your responses should be filed with Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, FCC, under
reference number MB Docket No. 14-57. For any responses that contain confidential or
proprietary information, please follow the filing instructions set forth in the Joint Protective
Order. For all hand deliveries pertaining to the Joint Protective Order, please call Vanessa
Lemmé (202-418-2611) to schedule receipt of hand delivery or, in her absence, Marcia
Glauberman (202-418-7046). For any responses that are submitted on paper that do not
contain confidential or proprietary information, please file in accordance with the instructions
set forth in the July 10, 2014 Public Notice. For any responses filed electronically, please
submit them according to the Instructions in the Request, and coordinate with Commission
staff, or designated information tecimology personnel, to ensure that any responsive electronic
records are submitted to the Commission in a technological format that is compatible with
Commission database systems and are processed and organized in a manner that is acceptable
to the Commission. For any electronic filings made using the Commission's Electronic
Comment Filing System, ("ECFS), parties should also serve the documents via e-mail to
Vanessa Lemmé, Vanessa.Lemmefcc.gov.
If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact Hillary Burchuk , or
William Freedman, Office of General Counsel at (202) 418-1719 and (202) 418-1415, respectively.
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Attachments
See, Modified Joint Protective Order, MB Docket No. 14-57, DA 14-1464 (rel. October 7,2014) and Amended
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