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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It might be at such an astronomical price that it won't be a very useful service.
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This is a devastating blow to the consumer. This one will lead to the end of the era of falling prices for telephone and cell-phone service.
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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 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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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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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.