Comcast Business Analysis Patricia Baskerville MGMT/521 January 30‚ 2012 Professor Samuel Cunningham Comcast Business Analysis Comcast is one of the largest video‚ broadband Internet‚ telephone‚ and cable service providers in the United States. The company is a member of the fortune 500 company as the largest and profitable companies. Comcast ranking number is 66 in the fortune 500 company and is in third
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Comcast Corporation is the nation’s leading provider of cable‚ entertainment and communications products and services‚ with 24.1 million cable customers‚ 12.4 million high-speed Internet customers and 3.5 million voice customers. Comcast is principally involved in the development‚ management and operation of broadband cable networks and in the delivery of programming content. Comcast provides a wide variety of consumer products and services: Video - Comcast is the nation’s largest video provider
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with High Definition technology and advanced features such as recording and playing TV shows anytime and high speed internet reaching to 6 MB/S. • Strategic Partnership: Partnering with America’s largest producers‚ such as MGM and Sony‚ enabled Comcast to expand its variety of movies and TV shows. • Excelling in Customer Service and Support: Comcast’s training aimed for serving customers all around
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PETER OLAFSON BACKGROUND Peter Olafson has just taken a position as the general manager for Cable King Television (CKV) of St. Paul Minnesota. CKV has been in existence for the past four years. The company is by UniComm of Beverly Hills California and a local St. Paul businessman‚ 85%-15% respectively. The first three years of CTV were spent securing state‚ federal‚ and local franchises and permission to operate in the St. Paul area. When Olafson arrived‚ CTV had six employees working on
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management to drive decisions and action “(Davenport‚ 2007‚ p. 7). I work for Comcast‚ one of the largest telecommunications companies‚ the company has been proactively analyzing
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The Disney Fox merger may have some trouble as rival Comcast is preparing an all cash bid to steal Fox away. And not only could it derail future emerging plans for the MCU‚ but it could cost the Mouse House a boatload. Nerdist News is reporting that while the current $52.4 Billion stock transaction deal is still working on the table between Disney and Fox‚ Comcast is getting read to lay down an insane $60 billion CASH bid that could be way too tempting for Fox shareholders‚ and 21st Century Fox
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Introduction Comcast‚ the largest home entertainment provider and Verizon Wireless the largest wireless provider go into a joint venture to form a strategic alliance. I work for a telecommunication’s company and we partnered with a major cell phone provider to be able to cross sell products such as cell phones‚ tablets‚ a computers along with internet land lines and home entertainment in one. It has been a profitable partnership. In this case our company collaborated with a wireless
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Prime time TV and its ads * Where Netflix is headed next The end of Prime Time Netflix has surpassed cable subscriptions. * Comcast informed investors that the company lost approximately 165‚000 cable subscribers between the months of July through September of 2011. * While Time Warner Cable‚ the second-largest U.S. cable operator behind Comcast Corp.‚ lost 126‚000 pay-TV accounts in the third quarter. Why Gen-Y still loves Netflix * Gen Y needs the most convenient service;
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Xfinity Cable’s Current Advertising Campaign Comcast Corporation‚ that has recently rebranded itself as Xfinity‚ has reintroduced their spokes-turtles‚ The Slowskys with a new member of the turtle family. In the first of the two new advertising spots on TV‚ Karolyn and Bill Slowsky try to announce the addition of their offspring are mixed up on the baby’s name because “We ’re not fast like Xfinity‚" Karolyn explains” (Reynolds‚ Spangler‚ & Gibbons‚ 2011‚ para. 2). They are unsure of his name due
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Comcast is a large cable and satellite television provider in the United States. The company has been plagued with internal weaknesses and external threats in recent years and is in desperate need of turning around its customer service department as quickly as possible. There are three factors in Comcast’s microenvironment that critically affect the company and their day to day operations. One of the most important factors is their people‚ the ones working and providing customers with information
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