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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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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If approved, this merger will lead to higher local, long distance and cell phone prices for consumers across the country.
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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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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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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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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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Rubber-stamping these mergers is an embarrassing milestone in this nation because it puts an end to any real hope of head-to-head telephone competition.
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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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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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We are asking the Justice Department to step in and block this.
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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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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.