Gene Kimmelman
Gene Kimmelman
Gene Kimmelman is a consumer protection advocate who specializes in competition law and United States antitrust law...
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Ultimately, dialing up an Internet Service Provider will be treated as a long- distance phone call. Everything about the FCC's analysis indicates that this will cause a price increase for the consumer.
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What they're doing is combining local telephone monopolies from the Rio Grande all the way to the Great Lakes plus California. These are markets that have not been opened to competition.
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We'll be extremely disappointed if antitrust officials do not require more substantial divestment of assets.
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I think we are on a slippery slope to something that hopefully will be much better for consumers. Consumers could wind up with more choices and more control over what they spend and what they get.
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The ballgame becomes now how each of the two industries that controls a wire can determine what content, what access, at what speed consumers and technologists can offer and retrieve services over those networks,
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The bad news is that we may have lost the opportunity to also preserve enough spectrum for a fourth strong competitor in this market.
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It's an elite clientele, probably the top 20 percent of the market that's attractive.
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What happened today was (Martin) just blew an enormous hole in the fortress of the cable and broadcast monopoly,
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Congress and federal regulators need to look carefully at the lifeless competition their flawed policies have created and reject this merger.
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Congress and federal regulators need to look carefully at the lifeless 'competition' their flawed policies have created and reject this merger. The government has been deceived before by promises that somehow more concentration would produce more choices and competition, when the result has been just the opposite. It shouldn't be fooled again.
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Every potential benefit they describe is exactly what monopolists always say: You can get new services, but you have to pay more.
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We are asking the Justice Department to step in and block this.
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AT&T is taking these cost reductions as profit.
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This is the government making your TV go black and then only paying part of the costs for some of the people to make it work again, and none of the costs for others.