Mark Cooper
Mark Cooper
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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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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 a major public policy problem, ... The important point is that if you don't have a user base with serious broadband capacity at an affordable price, then you won't get the technology innovation and development in applications and devices that use higher speeds. That's why all the development has gone overseas and we limp along here.
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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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We've gone from a regulated monopoly to an unregulated duopoly.
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There is no market to discipline the pricing in this industry. What you need to spend the next 18 months doing while you still have the authority is to establish the structural conditions that would let market forces be created,
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There are two sets of people who clearly made a lot of money last year ? the producers and traders as the price escalated.
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Nathan could have scored five goals in the second-half alone. Nathan has a lot of potential but he discovered the hardest part of the game is putting the ball in the net.
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My players should feel embarrassed, especially the seniors.
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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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You haven't innovated anything that you want to charge these customers for.
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We're losing serious competitors for the residential consumer and the business market.
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I think it's nice. I've wanted all my life to see this happen. I remember people telling me when I was little I might live long enough to see it happen. And now I'm seeing it.
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Once they decide what's normal and what's fast, (phone companies) are gatekeepers.