Comcast Innovating Broadband and Cable Services, 'Bullish' on NBCUniversal, CEO Roberts Says

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Broadband is the fastest-growing segment of Comcast’s business, but innovation will change Comcast'sntraditional cable base “more in the next five years than it has in the past 50,” Comcast CEO BriannRoberts told the Washington Economic Club Thursday. When Microsoft invested $1 billion in Comcastnin 1997, Roberts said Bill Gates told him then that Comcast's business would expand far beyond deliveringnTV service. That prediction has held true, Roberts said. Comcast has about 22 million video customersnand 20 million broadband customers, he said. "Those lines will cross some time in the next couple ofnyears and we will have just as many — if not more — broadband customers than we have video customers,"nhe said. Comcast faces a “different broadband every year,” he said. “We change the speeds, the naturenof it, so Wi-Fi is now ... part of our definition of broadband. So we want to have the fastest Wi-Fi asnwell as the fastest pipe. We want to offer you access outside of your home.”