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system wide customers subscribe to the CableValue package and <br />17,742 system wide customers subscribe to the CablePlus package. <br />• 4. Subscribers are given notice that fully discloses <br />their options, as well as fully discloses the total <br />price (including related equipment charges) <br />associated with exercising any of these options. <br />Adelphia has provided customer service information to all <br />subscribers identifying the services available on the cable <br />system and their associated prices. This customer service <br />information appears to disclose subscriber options and the <br />total price associated with exercising any option. <br />5. An insignificant percentage or number of channels in <br />the package has been removed from the regulated tiers. <br />Adelphia has completely eliminated two tiers of service <br />which were available on April 1, 1993 and has classified all 31 <br />channels formerly on those two tiers of service as "a la carte" <br />channels. In addition, the rates charged by Adelphia for their <br />"a la carte" packages (CableValue and CablePlus) closely <br />resemble the rates charged for those services when they were <br />classified as regulated service tiers prior to April 1, 1993. <br />For example, the a la carte package known as CableValue is <br />currently priced at $16.45 whereas the former "Economy Service" <br />tier present on April 1, 1993 was priced at $16.95. Likewise, <br />• the a la carte package known as CablePlus currently is priced <br />at $21.45 whereas the former "Standard Service" tier present on <br />April 1, 1993 was priced at $21.95. <br />The City hereby renders the below Findings of Fact <br />regarding the ten (10) factors outlined by the FCC which weigh <br />against allowing unregulated treatment of collective offerings <br />of "a la carte" channels. <br />1. The introduction of the "a la carte" package results <br />in avoiding rate reductions that otherwise would have <br />been required under the FCC's rules. <br />This is impossible for the City to determine since the <br />City is unable to access all of the necessary information <br />required to run calculations utilizing FCC Form 1200. <br />2. A significant percentage or number of channels in the <br />package were removed from regulated tiers. <br />Adelphia's Form 1215 submission specifies that 31 channels <br />formerly carried on two separate regulated tiers of service on <br />April 1, 1993, have been removed and classified as "a la carte" <br />channels. Therefore, 100% of the a la carte channels other <br />than premium channels were removed from regulated tiers. <br />-3- <br />