Comcast agrees to pay $800K in settlement with FCC

Published June 28, 2012 3:17am ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — Comcast Corp. has reached a settlement with federal regulators under which it will pay the government $800,000 and offer a broadband Internet access option to customers who don’t subscribe to the cable company’s video cable services.

The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday that Comcast agreed to take those and other steps as part of a consent decree to settle an investigation by the agency into the company’s compliance with conditions of its NBCUniversal acquisition, which was completed in January 2011.

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