Francis M. Buono serves as Executive Vice President of Legal Regulatory Affairs and Senior Deputy General Counsel for Comcast Corporation. As head of the Legal Regulatory Group, Frank is responsible for providing corporate-wide legal advice on regulatory matters and overseeing the company’s legal regulatory advocacy, including filings in federal, state, and local regulatory proceedings and related litigation and appeals. He also oversees compliance with the regulatory requirements imposed on the company at each of these levels of government.
Prior to joining Comcast, Frank was a Partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, where he served as Chair of the Communications, Media & Privacy Department. During his 25 years with the firm, he represented cable operators, Internet service providers, video programmers, and equipment manufacturers in major FCC rulemakings, merger transactions, and congressional legislation (including the Telecommunications Act of 1996), as well as in administrative adjudications regarding the FCC’s program access, program carriage, rate regulation, navigation device, effective competition, cable ownership, and must-carry rules. He also represented financial institutions, information service providers, retailers, communications providers, insurance companies, cloud computing vendors, and others on various U.S. and international data privacy and data security issues.
Frank is a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA) and has previously served as the Co-Chair of the FCBA’s Cable Practice Committee. He has authored numerous articles on communications, intellectual property, e-commerce, and data privacy law. He graduated from both Georgetown University and Georgetown University Law Center with high honors.
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Comcast creates incredible technology and entertainment that connects millions of people to the moments and experiences that matter most. They are a global media and technology company with three primary businesses: Comcast Cable, NBCUniversal, and Sky. Comcast Cable is one of the United States’ largest video, high-speed internet, and phone providers to residential customers under the Xfinity brand, and also provides these services to businesses. It also provides wireless and security and automation services to residential customers under the Xfinity brand. Xfinity delivers the best entertainment to customers via X1, Flex and Stream. NBCUniversal is global and operates news, entertainment and sports cable networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, television production operations, television station groups, Universal Pictures, and Universal Parks and Resorts. Sky is one of Europe's leading media and entertainment companies, connecting customers to a broad range of video content through its pay television services. It also provides communications services, including residential high-speed internet, phone, and wireless services. Sky operates the Sky News broadcast network and sports and entertainment networks, produces original content, and has exclusive content rights. 23 million customers in six countries get brilliant TV, broadband and mobile from Sky. Additional business lines include Comcast Ventures, Comcast Technology Solutions, and Comcast Spectator. Comcast Ventures combines the resources of a global media and technology leader; the expertise of a leading venture fund; and the technical insight, scale, and experience of a strategic investor. Comcast Technology Solutions exists to provide the technologies businesses need in order to provide all these wonderful choices. Lastly, their Comcast Spectator segment is a national leader in the world of sports and entertainment with a portfolio of various professional sport franchises.