commercial accounts that are currently unavailable to any of the individual companies. They are also persuasive that Charter’s current offerings to its enterprise customers are highly competitive when compared with similar offerings from other companies serving that space. ORA’s witnesses Gallardo and Clark are persuasive that current service levels for the voice service customers of TWCIS and Bright House California and the broadband customers of Charter Fiberlink are low in comparison with levels of service received from other providers. If New Charter merely maintains the current service levels of its constituent companies, it may technically satisfy the statutory requirement but it is difficult to conclude that such a result is in the public interest when current service levels are unsatisfactory. At a minimum New Charter should, within a reasonable time after the closing of the Transaction, provide voice and broadband service levels that are comparable to the average service levels of its competitors. According to Joint Applicants, the parent company merger will lead to significantly improved services to the customers of the licensed subsidiaries. We will hold them to that statement and require, as a condition of approving the Transaction, a concrete plan for remedying the service deficiencies of their licensed subsidiaries as soon as possible following completion of the Transaction. With that proviso, we conclude that, as modified herein and spelled out more fully in the ordering paragraphs of this decision, the Transaction meets the requirements of § 854(c)(2).
commercial accounts that are currently unavailable to any of the individual companies. They are also persuasive that Charter’s current offerings to its enterprise customers are highly competitive when compared with similar offerings from other companies serving that space. ORA’s witnesses Gallardo and Clark are persuasive that current service levels for the voice service customers of TWCIS and Bright House California and the broadband customers of Charter Fiberlink are low in comparison with levels of service received from other providers. If New Charter merely maintains the current service levels of its constituent companies, it may technically satisfy the statutory requirement but it is difficult to conclude that such a result is in the public interest when current service levels are unsatisfactory. At a minimum New Charter should, within a reasonable time after the closing of the Transaction, provide voice and broadband service levels that are comparable to the average service levels of its competitors. According to Joint Applicants, the parent company merger will lead to significantly improved services to the customers of the licensed subsidiaries. We will hold them to that statement and require, as a condition of approving the Transaction, a concrete plan for remedying the service deficiencies of their licensed subsidiaries as soon as possible following completion of the Transaction. With that proviso, we conclude that, as modified herein and spelled out more fully in the ordering paragraphs of this decision, the Transaction meets the requirements of § 854(c)(2).
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