Report: Comcast eyeing new mobile content package; may go 'outside of cable footprint'

Tom Paine

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Claire Atkinson, in the New York Post's "On the Money" column, reports that "Comcast is also out negotiating for national video rights to a prospective “virtual MVPD (multichannel video program distributor)” offering — the first time a regional cable player is moving beyond its footprint."

She also reports that Comcast is talking to Disney about an offering outside the cable bundle.

“If they go out of footprint, they’ll do it with a 5G mobile phone service; they don’t want to offer it with someone else’s data plan,” Atkinson quote one source as saying.


This comes within the backdrop of Comcast veteran Greg Butz, currently EVP, Sales & Marketing Operations, Comcast Cable, just being named to head a new Mobile unit.