1. Ben Chodos

2. Products
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Cable television
Broadband Internet
Home Phone Service
Home Security
NBCUniversal Content

3. Finances
• 2012 Revenue: $62.6 billion
• Assets: $165 billion
• 1999: $8.19/share
• 2009: $15 /share
• Now: $50.10 /share

4. Company History
• Founded 1963 as American Cable Systems
• 2002 Acquired AT&T Broadband
• 2011 – Majority owned NBCUniversal

5. What’s Hot
• NBC Universal Acquisition
o Finalized in March
• Market Share
o 21.7 Million cable customers
o 19.9 Million high-speed internet customers
o 10.3 Million voice customers
• Time Warner Cable Merger?

6. Secret Sauce
• Horizontal Monopoly
o Largest Cable provider in America
• Vertical Monopoly
o Major TV Content Provider
• Inelastic Demand

7. Story Time
• Net Neutrality
• Comcast Corp. v. FCC.
• FCC does not have jurisdiction over Comcast
Network Management Policies

8. Competitors

9. Prediction
• Short Term – Continue making huge profit margins
• Long Term – Change in business model from bundled cable services