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Comcast Roundup: Jeff Zucker speaks, $1 million for Haiti relief and More

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After the jump, Fancast Xfinity expanded again, why Comcast has to write down their promises now and a dozen more stories.


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Comcast Roundup: Who saved the NBC deal, enemy of Google and More

Every Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m. EST, find all the stories you need to know about your friendly telecommunications giant in the Comcast Roundup. Get an e-mail subscription for our Comcast news updates.

Yo, the Comcast news isn’t going to stop, even for Christmas Eve.

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The Inquirer’s Bob Fernandez revives the storyline on how the Comcast-NBC Universal merger happened, beginning at the Four Seasons on the Ben Franklin Parkway and tying to Comcast’s CFO Michael Angelakis.

Reuters reports that Comcast may have shrewdly structured its deal with GE to allow for a cost-effective purchase of the remaining 49 percent of NBC by the middle of next decade.

Below, buying ice from the Spectrum and Google on net neutrality.


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Comcast Roundup: Brian Roberts at Web 2.0 Summit, latest on NBC deal and More

The Phillies are returning to the World Series, and, amid all the wild celebration, Thursday morning’s Comcast Roundup still must be done. Get an e-mail subscription for our Comcast news updates.

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts made a big splash with his presence at San Francisco’s Web 2.0 Summit this week.

After the jump, continued coverage of a possible purchase of NBC, On Demand Online by year’s end more than a dozen other Comcast stories of note.


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Comcast Roundup: Deal with NBC ‘done in principle,’ major security initiative underway and More

Every Thursday morning, find all the stories you need to know about your friendly telecommunications giant in the Comcast Roundup. Get an e-mail subscription for our Comcast news updates.

Weeks likely still remain before any more actionable steps would be taken in Comcast’s very tenuous, highly publicized possible 51 percent purchase of NBC Universal, according to the Wrap. But, Sharon Waxman reports on the site, there is a deal in principle.

But, folks there’s plenty standing in the way:

Even in the still very uncertain reality that this high-profile purchase were to occur, a simple majority stake by Comcast would hardly offer even the hint that NBC’s decidedly 67th ward-branded programming would take on any Philadelphia tone.

But, it could, of course, be noted that in recent years NBC has shifted the locations of its Web divisions and some MSNBC functions from Manhattan to New Jersey. While other realities were at play, the dramatic difference in real estate cost between the two surely wasn’t ignored. Philadelphia could prove an even cheaper, yet higher-profile home than the Garden State, with all the other benefits of a major city in between the government and financial capitals of the country, for any such low-profile administrative or other departments.

After the jump, more Comcast-NBC fantasizing, a large Internet security rollout and, yeesh, at least 10 other Comcast stories of note.


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Comcast Roundup: Net Neutrality, raising prices “because it can” and More

Every Thursday morning, find all the stories you need to know about your friendly telecommunications giant in the Comcast Roundup. Get an e-mail subscription to our Comcast news updates.

Net neutrality and Comcast’s role in that debate’s recent-most incarnation dominated mentions of the telecommunications giant this week.

The Federal Communications Commission will keep Comcast and others from limiting user Web traffic, according to sources of the Washington Post, which owned the coverage and suspected that decision as early as last week.

But the FCC’s call that they have the authority to rule that ISPs like Comcast cannot create user limitations is muddy, considering other recent actions from the bipartisan governing body, as Wired magazine reported. The pushback came from Comcast, by way of an open-letter written by company executive vice president David L. Cohen, as reported by the Inquirer.

CNet reported on growing House support for a net neutrality bill. MacWorld talked on just how quickly you could breeze through Comcast’s monthly 250-gb limit (H/T Philly Tech News).

We’ve said before that you know the Comcast story is big when Joey Sweeney gets in on it.

After the jump, Comcast raises prices “because it can,” Hulu trades business ideas and seven other Comcast news items for your perusing.


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Comcast Roundup: How Verizon is losing, Scott McNulty interviews the Wiggles and More

Every Thursday morning, find all the stories you need to know about your friendly telecommunications giant in the Comcast Roundup.

Yahoo Finance reports on the attention paid to an increasingly apparent strategy of monetization from Comcast’s Interactive Media arm. There are circles who peg the company’s Web growth on that young crew.

Inquirer business columnist Joe DiStefano shares a report on just how Comcast is beating Verizon: their primary business, silly bear. The wireless industry is hotly contested, driving prices down, while cable remains monopoly based, keeping prices high and leaving companies like Comcast and TimeWarner Cable smiling.

After the jump check a low Internet speed ranking, FCC warning shots and an interview with the Wiggles, for real.

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