Mark Cooper
Mark Cooper
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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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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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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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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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Consumers are trapped between a small group of powerful, non- competing oil companies out to maximize profits and weak governmental authorities who consistently fail to strengthen or enforce the law.
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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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We're losing serious competitors for the residential consumer and the business market.
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Everyone is shocked by what has happened to Scott. It's like a bombshell has hit the club.
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Everyone now sees that we're going to get an economic slowdown as a result of gasoline.
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The Bells want to capture rent on innovation.
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Once they decide what's normal and what's fast, (phone companies) are gatekeepers.
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The fiction that a lot of competition will protect the public is dead.
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If Nathan keeps playing to that level he can look forward to a very bright future in the game. He is already a real handful.
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I have no doubt the number has grown,