Mark Cooper
Mark Cooper
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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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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.
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The simple fact of the matter is that competition is good for consumers.
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Competition in cable is in a very bad state, ... Why would AT&T do anything differently?
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The fiction that a lot of competition will protect the public is dead.
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This is the end of traditional head-to-head competition.
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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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the price for its operating system should have come down 3 percent or in the worst case stayed flat.
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While I understand that everyone would love to punish the oil companies, I want to solve the problem.
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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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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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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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We've been a fast-starting team for most of the year. It was a comfortable feeling to get out to a big lead. The middle two quarters it seemed like our advantage was between 10 and 13 points, which was close enough, but not far enough ahead.
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What's they've done is reconstitute Ma Bell on a regional basis.