Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age (64 page)

Broadband Internet Access Policy Statement (FCC),
(i)
,
(ii)

Broadcasters: and balance of power,
(i)
; charging cable for redistribution rights,
(i)
; historic business model of,
(i)
; retransmission consent of,
(i)
,
(ii)

Broadcasting and Cable:
on diversity pledges of Comcast,
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; on lobbying against 1992 act,
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Brodsky, Julian,
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,
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,
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Brown, Jesse,
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Buffett, Warren,
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Bundled Internet Explorer with Windows,
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Bundled resold wireless access,
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Bundled services from cable providers,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Burke, Stephen (Steve),
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Bush, George W.: deregulatory agenda of,
(i)
; veto of 1992 act,
(i)

Cable Communications Policy Act (1984),
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,
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Cable industry: advantage over phone industry,
(i)
; advertising on cable channels,
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; blending connectivity with content,
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,
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,
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,
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; broadcaster-cable relationship,
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; clustering in,
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,
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,
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; content acquisition,
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; FCC jurisdiction over,
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; fighting over municipal franchises,
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; generational differences in customers of,
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; lack of government oversight,
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,
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,
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,
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; lobbyist control over rules affecting,
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; market explosion of,
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; monopoly power of,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; pre-1992 development,
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; rates,
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,
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,
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; similarities to wireless,
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; speeds degraded by congestion,
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; and TV Everywhere potential,
(i)
.
See also
Comcast; Time Warner

CableLabs (Cable Television Laboratories),
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Cable-modem service,
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,
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Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act (1992),
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,
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,
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.
See also
Retransmission consent of broadcasters

Cablevision,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission,
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Canadian usage-based billing,
(i)

Captive audience of pay-TV subscribers,
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Carnegie, Andrew,
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Case, Steve: ahead of his time,
(i)
,
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; on AOL–Time Warner merger,
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,
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,
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,
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; on broadband as future,
(i)
; ignorance of Time Warner structure,
(i)
; at QuantumLink,
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; start of AOL,
(i)
,
(ii)

CATVs (community antenna television systems),
(i)

CBS,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access), standard,
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,
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Cellphones.
See
Wireless access

Central Pacific Railroad,
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Charter,
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,
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,
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Chernow, Ron,
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,
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,
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Chicago, Comcast in,
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,
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Cicconi, James,
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,
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,
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Cingular,
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,
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Class action against Comcast in Philadelphia area (2011),
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Clinton, Hillary,
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Cloud-based services,
(i)

Clyburn, Mignon,
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CNBC,
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,
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CNN,
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Cohen, David: on after-effects of merger,
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; background of,
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; on business model used by Comcast,
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; in charge of Comcast merger strategy,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; and FCC review of Comcast-NBCU merger,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; on political nonpriority of telecommunications,
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; on reasonable network management,
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; on wholesale access,
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Cohen, Rhonda,
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College football Bowl Championship Series,
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Comcast: acquisitions by,
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,
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,
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; alignment with Time Warner,
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; average revenue per subscriber,
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; business strategy of,
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,
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,
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; charitable donations of,
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; class action against in Philadelphia area (2011),
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; compared to railroad and oil barons,
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; compared to Time Warner,
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; competition potential,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; conflict of interest in terms of country as a whole,
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; and connecting networks,
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; in consortium to buy Group W,
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; content quest of,
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; content shows prior to NBCU merger,
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; cooperation by not competing,
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; corporate governance of,
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; corporate jet owned by,
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; customer base, size of,
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,
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,
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,
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; Disney, attempt of Comcast to take over,
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,
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; DOCSIS 3.0 data services,
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,
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,
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; financial success and profit margins of,
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,
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,
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,
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; and high-speed access,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; history of,
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,
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; and Hulu,
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; limited partnerships, use of,
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; and margin squeeze,
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; and minorities,
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; monopoly of,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; as owner of sports teams,
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; power to influence TV's distribution over Internet,
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; regulatory environment posing no threat to,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; Rendell's relationship with,
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; and retransmission fees,
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; as Roberts family company,
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; and sports programming,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; suit against FCC over authority to regulate (2010),
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; swapping and clustering of customers,
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,
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; technological agility of,
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,
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; unreasonably restricting data traffic,
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; and usage-based caps,
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,
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; Verizon Wireless cooperation with,
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,
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,
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; as video delivery service,
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; video viewed online, market share of,
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; and wireless access,
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; withholding practices,
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,
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; Xbox deal with Microsoft,
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; Xfinity,
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,
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.
See also
Merger of Comcast and NBCU

Comcast SportsNet,
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Committee on Cable Communications,
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Common-carriage regulation,
(i)
; AOL benefiting from,
(i)
; attempt to bring cable industry under,
(i)
; failure to bring cable industry under,
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,
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,
(iii)
,
(iv)
; and history of communications transport,
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,
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; services not subject to,
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; and wireless networks,
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,
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Common Cause,
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Common Sense Media (CSM),
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Communications Workers of America,
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Community antenna television systems (CATVs),
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Competition: between cable-modem service and DSL,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
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; Comcast neutralizing possibilities of,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
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,
(iv)
; not offering protection to consumers,
(i)
; and usage-based billing,
(i)
.
See also
Independent programming

Compuserve,
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,
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,
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Computer industry: differentiated from data transport,
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; protection from phone industry,
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Congestion pricing,
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Congress: and Comcast-NBCU merger,
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; and political pressure,
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.
See also
House Judiciary Committee hearing; Senate Antitrust Subcommittee hearing;
specific members

Congressional Black Caucus,
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Congressional Hispanic Conference,
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Congressional Research Service on demand for sports programming,
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Consolidated Tobacco,
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Consumer advocates,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Consumer Federation of America,
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Consumers Union,
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,
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Content: African American–targeted programming,
(i)
; Comcast increasing independent programming,
(i)
; Comcast's desire for,
(i)
; concentrated nature of industry,
(i)
,
(ii)
; control over preventing independent competition,
(i)
; costs from programmers,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
; as customer's top priority,
(i)
; failure to separate from connectivity,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
; and TV Everywhere potential,
(i)
.
See also
Independent programming; Merger of Comcast and NBCU; Sports programming;
specific networks

Conyers, John,
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Coolidge, Calvin,
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Cooper, Mark,
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,
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,
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,
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Copps, Michael,
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,
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,
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