Comcast 2012 Annual Report Download - page 41

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Item 1B: Unresolved Staff Comments
None.
Item 2: Properties
We believe that substantially all of our physical assets were in good operating condition as of December 31, 2012. Our corporate
headquarters and Cable Communications segment headquarters are located in Philadelphia, PA at One Comcast Center, a leased
facility. We also lease locations for numerous business offices, warehouses and properties housing divisional information technology
operations throughout the country.
Cable Communications
Our principal physical assets consist of operating plant and equipment, including signal receiving, encoding and decoding devices,
headends and distribution networks, and equipment at or near our customers’
homes. The signal receiving apparatus typically
includes a tower, antenna, ancillary electronic equipment and ground stations for reception of satellite signals. Headends consist of
electronic equipment necessary for the reception, amplification and modulation of signals and are located near the receiving devices.
Our distribution network consists primarily of coaxial and fiber-
optic cables, lasers, routers, switches and related electronic
equipment. Our cable plant and related equipment generally are connected to utility poles under pole rental agreements with local
public utilities, although in some areas the distribution cable is buried in underground ducts or trenches. Customer premises
equipment (“CPE”) consists primarily of set-
top boxes and cable modems. The physical components of cable systems require
periodic maintenance and replacement.
Our signal reception sites, which consist primarily of antenna towers and headends, and our microwave facilities are located on
owned and leased parcels of land, and we own or lease space on the towers on which certain of our equipment is located. We own
most of our service vehicles.
Our high-speed Internet network consists of fiber-
optic cables owned or leased by us and related equipment. We also operate
regional data centers with equipment that is used to provide services (such as e-mail, news and web services) to our high-
speed
Internet customers and voice service customers. In addition, we maintain two network operations centers with equipment necessary
to monitor and manage the status of our high-speed Internet network.
We own or lease buildings throughout the country that contain call centers, service centers, warehouses and administrative space.
We also own a building that houses our digital media center. The digital media center contains equipment that we own or lease,
including equipment related to network origination, video transmission via satellite and terrestrial fiber optics, broadcast studios, post-
production services and interactive television services.
NBCUniversal Segments
NBCUniversal’
s corporate headquarters are located in New York City at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, a leased facility. We also own or lease
offices, studios, production facilities, screening rooms, retail operations, warehouse space, satellite transmission receiving facilities
and data centers in numerous locations in the United States and around the world for our NBCUniversal businesses, including
property for our owned local broadcast television stations. In addition, we also own theme parks and related facilities in Orlando and
Hollywood.
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