

Ī 2014 investigative series published by The Verge involved interviews with 150 Comcast employees, and examined why the company was so widely criticized by its customers, the media, and its own workers. A 2012 Reddit post written by an anonymous Comcast call center employee, eager to share their negative experiences with the public, received attention from publications including The Huffington Post. Employee relations Ĭomcast is often criticized by the media and its own staff for its less-than-upstanding policies of employee relations. As of 2019, the company had 184,000 employees. In the fall of 2018, it finished construction of the 1,121 ft (342 m) Comcast Technology Center, Pennsylvania's tallest skyscraper, adjacent to its original headquarters. On January 3, 2005, it announced it would become the anchor tenant in the new Comcast Center in downtown Philadelphia-at 975 ft (297 m), the second-tallest skyscraper in Pennsylvania. Novak, former chairman and CEO of YUM! BrandsĬomcast is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and has offices in Atlanta, Detroit, Denver, Manchester, New Hampshire and New York City.

These issues and others led to Comcast being dubbed "The Worst Company in America" by The Consumerist in 20. Its ownership of both content production (in NBCUniversal) and distribution (as an ISP) has raised antitrust concerns. Given its negotiating power as a large ISP, some suspect that it could leverage paid peering agreements to unfairly influence end-user connection speeds. Critics also point out a lack of competition in the vast majority of Comcast's service areas in particular, the limited competition among cable providers. It has violated net neutrality practices in the past, and, despite its commitment to a narrow definition of net neutrality, critics advocate a definition that precludes any distinction between Comcast's private network services and the rest of the Internet. Its customer satisfaction ratings were among the lowest in the cable industry during the years 2008–2010. Ĭomcast has been criticized for a variety of reasons. Since October 2018, it has also been the parent company of Sky Group. It also has significant holdings in digital distribution, such as thePlatform, which it acquired in 2006 and ad-tech company FreeWheel, which it acquired in 2014. As the parent company of the international media company NBCUniversal since 2011, Comcast is a producer of feature films for theatrical exhibition, and over-the-air and cable television programming.Ĭomcast owns and operates the Xfinity residential cable communications subsidiary, Comcast Business, a commercial services provider Xfinity Mobile, an MVNO of Verizon over-the-air national broadcast network channels ( NBC, Telemundo, TeleXitos, and Cozi TV) multiple cable-only channels (including MSNBC, CNBC, USA Network, Syfy, NBCSN, Oxygen, Bravo, G4 and E!) the film studio Universal Pictures the VOD streaming service Peacock animation studios ( DreamWorks Animation, Illumination, Universal Animation Studios) and Universal Parks & Resorts. residential and commercial customers in 40 states and the District of Columbia.
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It is the second-largest broadcasting and cable television company in the world by revenue (behind AT&T), the largest pay-TV company, the largest cable TV company and largest home Internet service provider in the United States, and the nation's third-largest home telephone service provider. Comcast Corporation (formerly known as American Cable Systems and Comcast Holdings), headquartered in Philadelphia, is the largest American multinational telecommunications conglomerate.
