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- US broadband growth slows to a trickle with only 260,000 new connections [GigaOM] “The decline of DSL in the US has life tough for the phone companies – who in total lost 70,000 subscribers during the second quarter of 2012. Winner: cable companies in general and Comcast in specific as 260,000 new folks signed up for broadband in the US. […] Comcast now has 18.74 million broadband subscribers, making it the biggest broadband provider in the US.”
- Comcast expands low-income Internet program [Chicago Sun-Times]
- Verizon, Comcast Agree to U.S. Demands on Airwaves [Business Week] “Verizon Wireless and Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) have agreed in principle with U.S. antitrust officials to limit joint ventures as a condition for buying airwaves from cable companies, making it likely the deal will be approved early next month, people with knowledge of the negotiations said.”
- FCC Bureau Clarifies Order For Comcast To Put Bloomberg TV With News Channels [Deadline] “The order clarifies a May 2 Media Bureau decision that Comcast discriminated against Bloomberg TV by positioning it away from other news services. It’s a sensitive issue because Bloomberg competes with CNBC: Before Comcast bought NBCU, it promised the FCC that it wouldn’t favor its own channels vs rival services.”
- Pac-12 Networks debut on Comcast Wednesday [The Seattle Times]
- Comcast’s Strauss: 2012 Olympics Were ‘TV Everywhere’ Watershed Event [Multichannel News] “More than 1.5 million Comcast subscribers accessed some 26 million video streams online and via mobile devices for NBCUniversal’s coverage of the 2012 London Olympic Games… […] However, that represents less than 10% of Comcast’s 22.1 million video customers. Meanwhile, NBCU irritated cord-cutters by mostly shutting them out from the live Internet video walled-garden, who then griped about it on Twitter and blogs and even turned to workarounds to tap into the BBC’s free, U.K.-only online feeds.”
- Philly cop charged in elaborate cable TV scam [Philadelphia Daily News] “A 15-year veteran Philly cop was allegedly one of the scammers who illegally accessed thousands of Comcast accounts then persuaded customers to pay them $150 in exchange for a lower cable bill or premium services.”
- Comcast Supports Denver Indian Center [Indian Country] “Comcast/NBC Universal gave Denver Indian Center a two-year $30,000 grant to be used for youth leadership development, and provided e-mail responses about Comcast’s programs in the Indian world.”
- Photos: Comcast/NBCU Ultra-HD Demo [LightReading] “At a recent invitation-only demo, Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) and NBCUniversal LLC offered a peek at a possible future for TV: Super Hi-Vision (also referred to as Ultra-HD and 8K), a format that produces about 16 times the resolution of today’s HDTV images.”
