Mark Cooper
Mark Cooper
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What's they've done is reconstitute Ma Bell on a regional basis.
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The simple fact of the matter is that competition is good for consumers.
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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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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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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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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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It was my decision to let Nicky go. I need players who are prepared to fight for us and I didn't feel he was the right man in this situation.
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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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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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As a bandwidth-intensive application, online gaming requires not only a high capacity network but also maximum reliability and resiliency to ensure that interactions in the online worlds are in real time. The E-Series has proven itself in some of the largest and most complex networks in the world, and now we are bringing that experience to enterprises like SEGA that require the same reliable, high performance networks.
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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 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.