Mark Cooper
Mark Cooper
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The telephone and cable companies got the bill they wanted.
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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 thought that these guys were going to compete with each other, but it's apparent that they would rather just merge. If the average consumer is lucky, he or she has two choices now: the phone company or the cable company. And the average consumer knows that two choices is not enough.
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The average consumer today wakes up with only two choices for full-service broadband communications, which is the future: the telephone company and the cable company. What we've gone from is a regulated monopoly to an unregulated duopoly.
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It's more of the same, and the same is an ever-tightening oligopoly at the heart of the cable TV broadband Internet industry.
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When you say programming costs have gone up, what you are saying is a vertically integrated cable company has decided to shift the profits from the left pocket to the right pocket,
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Competition in cable is in a very bad state, ... Why would AT&T do anything differently?
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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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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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The simple fact of the matter is that competition is good for consumers.
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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.