Sen Franken to FCC, DOJ: Do Better Job of Enforcing Comcast/NBCU Conditions

Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), long a Comcast/NBCU and general media concentration critic, wrote to the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice to say that the government needs to better monitor and enforce the conditions it applied in the Comcast/NBCU deal -- including public interest conditions from the FCC and competition-related conditions, including network neutrality, levied by DOJ in its settlement with the companies. He also took the opportunity to say that given what he argues has been "Comcast's questionable compliance record to date and its penchant for challenging all conditions-related complaints," he doubts the FCC can impose sufficient behavioral conditions on Comcast's and other cable operators' proposed sale of spectrum to Verizon to prevent future competitive harms, a deal he has also been critical of.