According to a Bloomberg report, citing Federal Communication Commission (FCC) tipsters, a Comcast-NBC merger will require to abide by net neutrality conditions for a period of at least seven years.

As per the escaped details from the terms proposed by the FCC, irrespective of what eventually happens with the neutrality regulations, Comcast - the bigwig US cable company - will be barred both from blocking or stifling rival content, and from prioritizing its own services, like Hulu.

Going by the details shared by the people familiar with Comcast's NBC acquisition deal, Comcast would probably be required to provide television programs to online competitors. Furthermore, regulators analyzing Comcast's planned acquisition of NBC Universal will not need to be assured that Comcast will refrain from interfering with subscribers' Web traffic.

Three unnamed FCC officials in Washington recently disclosed that the mentioned conditions that Comcast will have to abide proposed by the FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on December 23. These requirements pertaining to a Comcast-NBC merger have yet to be made public.

The unnamed officials also said in interviews that Genachowski, a Democrat, asked his four fellow FCC members to approve the acquisition of the Comcast-NBC merger on condition the combined company complies with the proposed requirements.

Commenting on the requirements, MF Global's Washington-based analyst Paul Gallant said: "Regulators want to ensure that online video providers have fair access to NBC-Universal programming at market-based rates."