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Comcast to pay $800k to FCC for hiding stand-alone broadband option [Roundup]

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  • NBC’s Olympics expectations: Fewer viewers, better TV ad sales [Inquirer]
  • Comcast Settles NBCU Deal Complaint with Stand-Alone Broadband Offering [Multichannel News] “According to the FCC, Comcast has agreed to pay $800,000 and extend its NBCU deal agreement to offer reasonably priced stand-alone broadband to consumers who do not also take cable service from the company.The agreement, in the form of a consent decree adopted by the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau, resolves an FCC investigation into complaints that Comcast was not “adequately marketing” the stand-alone service it agreed to offer as part of the NBCU deal.”
  • Supreme Court takes on damaged-class issue in suit against Comcast [Inquirer] — “The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether two million Comcast Corp. cable-TV customers in the Philadelphia area should be considered a damaged class in a lawsuit that seeks $875 million from the cable giant and has been wending its tortuous way through the federal courts for almost a decade.” More from Bloomberg here
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