Mark Cooper
Mark Cooper
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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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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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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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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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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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As it becomes the main avenue of commerce and communications, people not connected to the Internet could become a new category of the disenfranchised,