Comcast may provide TV programmes to online competitors

MUMBAI: In the process of its planned purchase of NBC Universal, Comcast may have to provide television programmes to online competitors and wouldn‘t be allowed to interfere with subscribers‘ web traffic to satisfy regulators.
  
Critics have urged the commission to keep Comcast from unfairly withholding NBC content from the growing market for online video and to ensure Comcast‘s 17 million high-speed Internet customers have access to web content not controlled by the company. 
 
Comcast, the largest US cable company, announced two years ago that it would gain control of the NBC television network, broadcast stations, cable channels such as MSNBC and USA Network, a library of more than 4,000 movies and part ownership of the Hulu online video service.

The transaction is being reviewed separately by the Justice Department.