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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,
2015. Our corporate headquarters and Cable Communications segment headquarters are located in Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania at One Comcast Center. We own an 80% interest in the entity whose primary asset is
One Comcast Center. We also lease locations for numerous business offices, warehouses and properties
housing divisional information technology operations throughout the United States.
Cable Communications Segment
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.
Our distribution network consists primarily of headends, content distribution servers, 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 premise equipment
consists primarily of set-top boxes, cable modems and wireless gateways. 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 facili-
ties 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 email, news
and web services) to our high-speed Internet and voice 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 customer service call centers, customer serv-
ice 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. NBCUniversal
owns the space it occupies at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. We also own or lease offices, studios, production facili-
ties, screening rooms, retail operations, warehouse space, satellite transmission receiving facilities and data
centers in numerous locations in the United States and around the world, including property for our owned
local broadcast television stations. In addition, we own theme parks and related facilities in Orlando, Florida
and Hollywood, California. In November 2015, NBCUniversal acquired a 51% interest in the Universal Studios
Japan.
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