Will US Regulators Balk at Comcast-NBC Deal?

Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press, and contributor to Mandate for Change, discusses the Comcast-NBC merger.

A report by the Free Press, a think tank that tracks media reform, says the deal would give Comcast too much control over the market, which would mean unregulated rate hikes for consumers.

“I don’t see it as concern as [to] whether consumers will pay for [content] or if it’s free, but [rather] how much will it cost,” says Ben Scott, policy director for the Free Press. “When you have that kind of market power, you can raise rates above what competition will normally produce in the free market.”

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