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Joe Waz

I’ve been with Comcast since 1994 (seems like I just got here - every day’s a new adventure). I’ve always worn a lot of hats, but my biggest one is to serve as the chief thinker on public policy. I work with our government affairs, legal, and corporate communications teams and with our various businesses to identify and understand the issues that may affect them and to find effective ways to advocate our POV. I especially enjoy working with think tanks, universities, and other institutions that drill into policy matters. I’m also fortunate to serve as the president of the Comcast Foundation, our philanthropic arm.

When I’m actually in Philadelphia, and not in D.C. or on some college campus, I live in a wonderful historic neighborhood in Philadelphia. I’m the chairman of Settlement Music School, the nation’s largest community school of the arts, and I serve on a half-dozen other not-for-profit boards. I’m a huge music fan (just about every genre), a competent musician, an inveterate traveler, a lucky husband, and the proud dad of a budding comedic filmmaker

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14Dec
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Comcast Answers Today's Traffic Question

The difference of opinion that Level 3 and our company have over our "Internet peering" relationship has generally been well understood as simply that -- a peering dispute. But a few in the blogosphere are trying to build other theories....

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07Dec
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20 Q's - with Accurate A's - About Level 3's Peering Dispute

Last Friday, Level 3 issued 19 "Frequently Asked Questions" supposedly designed to "clarify" the issues in the Comcast/Level 3 dispute. They were certainly very good questions...but Level 3's "answers" did more to muddy the waters than to clarify anything about...

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30Nov
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Comcast's Letter to FCC on Level 3

(Here is Comcast's ex parte to the FCC. The footnotes have been omitted for formatting reasons. To find the full text of the letter plus the footnotes, please visit this link: http://www.comcast.com/MediaLibrary/1/1/About/PressRoom/Documents/Comcastexparte1130.pdf) Comcast Corporation 300 New Jersey Avenue, NW Suite...

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30Nov
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10 Facts About Peering, Comcast and Level 3

1. Our customers get access to all the online video they want, along with any other Internet content, application, or service they choose -- regardless of its source. 2. Any rumors about blocking Netflix are false. 3. Our customers can...

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29Nov
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Comcast Comments on Level 3

Level 3 has inaccurately portrayed the commercial negotiations between it and Comcast. These discussions have nothing to do with Level 3's desire to distribute different types of network traffic. Comcast has long established and mutually acceptable commercial arrangements with Level...

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16Nov
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With Consensus at Hand on Net Neutrality, Time to "Check the Box"

At yesterday's Brookings forum on "Internet Governance and Regulation: What Should Be Government's Role?" Comcast's David Cohen delivered a keynote calling for a greater reliance on the role of engineers and the importance of transparent and consensus-based processes for governing...

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04Oct
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Ideas Forum: A Summit on American Innovation

The Atlantic magazine teamed with the Aspen Institute and the Newseum to stage the second annual Washington Ideas Festival last Thursday and Friday. It featured a series of over a dozen one-on-one interviews with leading figures in politics, business, economics,...

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13Jul
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What's Behind the Public Interest Agreements Announced by Comcast and NBCU?

When Comcast and GE announced on December 3 of last year that they would create a new joint venture in which Comcast would take operational and managerial responsibility for NBC Universal (“NBCU”), we immediately began reaching out to a wide...

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08Jul
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More Benefits of Comcast/NBCU Joint Venture Detailed at Chicago Field Hearing

During my testimony at today’s field hearing of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet on the Comcast NBCU joint venture, I requested that this letter to Rep. Bobby Rush from Comcast’s David Cohen be entered into the...

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07Jul
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Who benefits from the Comcast NBCU Joint Venture?

Tomorrow the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and The Internet of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is holding a field hearing in Chicago on the topic “Comcast and NBC Universal: Who Benefits?” I’ll be testifying at...

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