Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age (67 page)

Netflix: business of,
(i)
,
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; in Canada,
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; challenges facing,
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,
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,
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,
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; and distribution requirements,
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; effect of usage-based pricing on,
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; and last-mile network providers,
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; Level 3 deal with,
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; negotiations to join Video on Demand packages,
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; revenues,
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; and usage caps,
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Net neutrality fights,
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,
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,
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,
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Netscape,
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News Corp.,
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,
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New York Evening Post
,
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New York Post,
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New York Times
,
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,
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,
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NFL (National Football League),
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,
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,
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NFL Network,
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,
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NHL (National Hockey League),
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,
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Nickles, Don,
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Nielsen,
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Nixon, Richard,
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,
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Noam, Eli,
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North Carolina's “level playing field” bill,
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Northern Pacific Railway,
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,
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,
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Northern Securities v. United States
(1904),
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NYNEX,
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,
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Obama, Barack,
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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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Olympics,
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,
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,
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,
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OneUnited,
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Online video.
See
Video market

Overbuilders,
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.
See also
RCN

Pacific Railway Act (1862),
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Pacific Telesis,
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,
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Paramount,
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Paramount
case (1948),
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Parsons, Patrick R.,
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Patrick, Dennis,
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PCS (Personal Communications Services) auction,
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Peak-load usage, charging for,
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Peering relationships,
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,
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Pepper, Robert,
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Philadelphia: Cohen and Rendell in,
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; Comcast's home market in,
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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 sports programming,
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Philadelphia Business Journal
,
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Phillips, Damon,
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Phone companies.
See
Telephone industry

Pickering, Chip,
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Pilson, Neal,
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Pogue, David,
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Pole attachments,
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,
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,
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Political contributions, effect of,
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,
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,
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PolitickerPA
,
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Politico
,
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Populist Party,
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Portland Trail Blazers,
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,
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Postal Telegraph Company,
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Powell, Michael,
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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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Prayer for the City
(Bissinger),
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Prewitt, Jean,
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Price, Monroe,
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Prodigy,
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,
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,
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Programming.
See
Content; Independent programming; Sports programming;
specific networks

“Project Symphony,”
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Public-interest advocates.
See
Consumer advocates

Public Knowledge,
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QuantumLink,
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QVC,
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,
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Railroad industry,
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,
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,
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; congressional guarantee of land grants and loans to,
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; drawbacks,
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; farmers protesting charges of,
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,
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,
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; federally funded national railroad not possible,
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; growth (1860–90),
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; ICC regulation of,
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; initial regulatory oversight of,
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; mergers blocked (1909–1940s),
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; short haul–long haul discrimination prohibited,
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,
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; state and local assistance for,
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; trusts in,
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,
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,
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,
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Rasmussen, Bill,
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RCA (Radio Corporation of America),
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RCN (cable provider),
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Reasonable network management,
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,
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Recommendations,
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; Comcast's conflict of interest in terms of country as a whole,
(i)
; fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) service,
(i)
; high-speed access in U.S. homes,
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; municipal networks,
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; open access to all ISPs,
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; for political leadership,
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; for regulatory oversight,
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,
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; utility model,
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Record industry,
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,
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Redstone, Sumner,
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Reel Grrls,
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Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs),
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,
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,
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Regional sports networks (RSNs),
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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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Regulatory structure,
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; of electricity and other utilities,
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; posing no threat to Comcast,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; recommendations for,
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; telecommunications industry without government oversight,
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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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.
See also
Common-carriage regulation

Rendell, Ed,
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,
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Republicans,
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,
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,
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Retransmission consent of broadcasters,
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,
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Reuters
,
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Reverse billing proposed by AT&T,
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Rich-poor gap: Comcast-NBCU merger conditions aimed at,
(i)
; in high-speed Internet 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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; in wireless access,
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,
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,
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,
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Roberts, Brian Leon,
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,
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,
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; background and character of,
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,
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,
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,
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; on Comcast-NBCU merger,
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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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; on Comcast's future business,
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,
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; on Comcast's positive competitive position,
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; on delivery across multiple devices,
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; on high-speed Internet access,
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; on Hulu revenues,
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; influence in sport business,
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; on leak about NBCU merger,
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; meeting on NBCU deal,
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; on minority programming,
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; on NBC's Zucker,
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; on Netflix,
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,
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; in NFL negotiations for sports programming,
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; on retransmission consent,
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; at Senate Antitrust Subcommittee hearing,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; Specter meetings with,
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; voting stock in Comcast,
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.
See also
Comcast

Roberts, Ralph: Brian named successor to,
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; on cable industry's potential,
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; character of,
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; as founder of Comcast,
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,
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; meeting on NBCU deal,
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; at NBCU town meeting following merger,
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; on sale of Florida cable franchises,
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; at Senate Antitrust Subcommittee hearing,
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,
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; start in cable business,
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; transfer of voting stock to son Brian,
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Robichaux, Mark,
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,
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Rockefeller, John D.: attacks on T. Roosevelt,
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,
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; avoiding unpleasant hearings,
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; justifying corporate earnings,
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; political influence of,
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; similarity to B. Roberts,
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; similarity to cable distributors,
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; trust formed by,
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; working with railroad barons,
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,
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Rodino, Peter,
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Roku,
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Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
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Roosevelt, Theodore,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Rosston, Gregory,
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RSNs.
See
Regional sports networks

“Rule of reason” approach to mergers,
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Rural areas: AT&T–TMobile merger effect on,
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; and digital divide,
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,
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,
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; fiber buildout not to include,
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; Internet access in,
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,
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,
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,
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,
(v)

Rush, Bobby,
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,
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Sanders, Bernie,
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,
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Sandomir, Richard,
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San Francisco, Comcast in,
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,
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Satellite-service 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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