Can Comcast Be Trusted? Company Report Says It Exceeded Promises In NBCU Deal

[dfergie]

You can bet that government officials and opponents of Comcast’s $45.2B planned acquisition of Time Warner Cable will scrutinize its just-released third annual report describing how it has fulfilled the promises it made in 2011 to win FCC approval for the deal to buy NBCUniversal. Opponents already say the cable giant can’t be trusted. ”To the extent that Comcast has a history of breaching its legal obligations to consumers, such history should be taken into account when evaluating Comcast’s proposal for future market expansion,” Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) said last week in a letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.

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[Scott Greczkowski]

Yet neither satellite company has Comcast Sports Philly because Comcast dont want them to have it.

Yup I trust them.

 

[LER]

trust -- about as far as I can throw them, which ain't very far

 

[harshness]

There was quite a laundry list of conditions in the NBC merger agreement and I'm guessing Comcast has dealt with less than half of them in a meaningful way.

By meaningful, I mean that they haven't launched some sort of slight-of-hand effort to make it look like the real problem is elsewhere (as with the Netflix agreement).