Government Approves Comcast-NBC Merger

A handful of other conditions are designed to ensure that Comcast cannot stifle the growth of the fledgling Internet video market by starving the new industry for content. One requires the company to offer its programmin­g to legitimate Internet video providers on the same terms and conditions that it offers other pay-TV providers. Another requires the company to make comparable programmin­g available at comparable prices to an Internet video provider that has reached an agreement to buy programmin­g from another media company.


Yet another condition requires Comcast to continue offering an affordable­, standalone broadband option for customers who want Internet access but not TV service. This condition, too, is intended help drive the growth of online video by allowing consumers to cancel their cable subscripti­ons without losing their Internet connection­s.

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No sooner do deals like this one go through than the corporatio­ns stop complying with the conditions and the government does nothing about, has left itself no leverage to force compliance­.  This agreement turns out to be like the rest, so either Obama's Justice Department is filled with incompeten­ts, very bad lawyers who don't know how to negotiate and write contracts, or they're corrupt to the bone and in bed with Big Business.

Which do you think it is?
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