Mark Cooper
Mark Cooper
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These results show that although consumers believe network owners should provide unfettered access to the Internet, few believe they'll do so unless required by law. Our findings that consumers view the Internet as an important communications and information service only underscore the danger of discriminatory network practices.
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This reminds us that the fight over Net neutrality is even more important. AT&T has already made it clear that they intend to engage in discrimination and pick and choose who has access to the Internet's fast lane.
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The public clearly understands the importance of open, nondiscriminatory access to the Internet from network owners.
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What's they've done is reconstitute Ma Bell on a regional basis.
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We wish this merger would not happen, but the simple fact is a whole bunch of them should not happen. In the end the consumers end up with fewer and fewer competitors.
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The simple fact of the matter is that competition is good for consumers.
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The telephone and cable companies got the bill they wanted.
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And those little guys are still going to have to fight to get on those systems. It remains to be seen if the process is fair.
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Armstrong has a problem. He has locked up so many lines that he really violates the anti-trust laws in terms of concentration of market power. He's trying to get below the radar screen of the anti-trust authorities.
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Broadband was one of the few remaining opportunities for competition in telephone service. Now that door has been closed. If Justice now approves this merger, it slams yet another door.
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Telecommunications has now gone from a regulated monopoly to an unregulated duopoly with just two major players. Consumers know that is not enough competition to lower their prices and drive innovation.
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As it becomes the main avenue of commerce and communications, people not connected to the Internet could become a new category of the disenfranchised,
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Diversity? They don't have diversity on cable. They can't show you diversity on the cable dial.
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We don't see how that can help competition, and ultimately we think it results in the restriction in the program that gets to the public and higher prices.