Comcast Buying Remainder of NBCUniversal from GE

[exfileme]

Comcast is now moving into 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

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[seels]

Apple should now buy NBC, Comcast, and GE altogether. Acquire them all! Crush the competition! Muahaha. Buy copycats Google and Samsung too. Ha.

 

[robochump]

^^^You provoke the iHaters! Anyways this is another step with Comcast sticking it to Dish service providers. If Comcast owns enough networks it may screw Dish providers by charging more to offer their programming.

 

[Kami3k]

Great, more reason for them to have BS data caps and yet claim to have so much speed.

Yea well that speed is great but rendered useless when I can reach the cap in a hour because of it.

 

[meluvcookies]

Hopefully this doesn't mean that Comcast will shut down the availability of online news broadcasts.

 

[Guest]

Stop hating, if you dont like em dont use them. Go back to dial up. I get 110 mbs speeds with them and dont need their cable. Can watch everything online now. If you know where to look you an watch anything anytime without the cable box.

 

[Netherscourge]

And to pay for this purchase, Comcast is raising all our rates again!

 

[v90k]

@Kami3k wow so you can consume 250 Gb in an hour?

 

[Guest]

The only thing they are on the cutting edge of is raising rates, theyhave nothing to do with innovation. Their monopoly is the only reason they have enough cash to increase their monopoly.

 

[alidan]

I have stock with GE I wonder what this will do to it.

 

[ubercake]

When will anti-trust laws start to kick in with these cable providers? For most of us, it's choose one of two. For some of us, there's only one choice.

 

[chomlee]

[citation][nom]ubercake[/nom]When will anti-trust laws start to kick in with these cable providers? For most of us, it's choose one of two. For some of us, there's only one choice.[/citation]

I would like to know how many congressmen comcast has in their pockets. I just switched to directTV because comcast raised my rates. Unfortunately I was forced to keep internet because they are the only decent choice in my area. Look at all the changes in the laws that comcast has had their hands in over the last 20 years. Its rediculous that the country voted for regulation on the cable industry 15 years ago forcing competition but yet that law got squashed by some congressmen paid off by the cable companies.

What scares me now is that they might have a large stake of Hulu now and they will in tern be limiting the way you get downloadable content. If they had their way, no content could be downloadable on the web and only accessable through them for a fee.

Lets face it, getting tv programing via cable should be in the stone age by now and the only reason why we cant just get all our programing by using something like a roku or apple tv box is because of the cable companies influence on how that media will be distributed.

 

[chomlee]

[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]I have stock with GE I wonder what this will do to it.[/citation]

Well, I guess it was anounced yesterday and the stock went up 3% I made some decent money myself but I would gladly give it back if it meant that comcast would begin to be looked at as a monopoly.