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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It is the inevitable backslide toward monopoly and results from excessive deregulation and weak antitrust oversight.
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There is no reason why they shouldn't be able to serve everyone in a community.
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We think this is really going to open up a whole new debate on the benefits of letting consumers pick their own channels on cable television.
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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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What happened today was (Martin) just blew an enormous hole in the fortress of the cable and broadcast monopoly,
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We are asking the Justice Department to step in and block this.
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The prices are soaring. With the end of final government oversight of cable rates, the prices will continue to soar, because most consumers do not have a choice. There's only one cable company in their community.
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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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If approved, this merger will lead to higher local, long distance and cell phone prices for consumers across the country.
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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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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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We'll be extremely disappointed if antitrust officials do not require more substantial divestment of assets.
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These were exaggerations. The market isn't developing to a competitive status nearly as fast as they had predicted and prices are going up for consumers. Consumers are getting the short end because these exaggerations drove Congress to a plan that was premature,
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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,