Summary Box: Comcast, NBC deal boosts online video (AP)

Monday, February 28, 2011 12:01 PM

A NASCENT MARKET: New cyberspace recording services from companies such as Netflix and Apple are offering a low-cost deciding to a expensive monthly telegram bill. Protecting this aborning mart was a top antecedency for polity officials reviewing Comcast Corp.'s takeover of NBC Universal.

THE DANGER: Government officials feared Comcast could choke the growth of cyberspace recording by overcharging for — or only withholding — NBC content, or by interference or slowing online recording reciprocation on its broadband network.

THE CONDITIONS: To win polity approval, Comcast united to permit online rivals authorise NBC programming, and pledged not to country its 17 meg broadband subscribers from watching recording on the Internet.


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