42 ordspråk av Gene Kimmelman
Gene Kimmelman
The ballgame becomes now how each of the two industries that controls a wire can determine what content, what access, at what speed consumers and technologists can offer and retrieve services over those networks,
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The commission has failed to ensure that consumers will receive meaningful choices at fair prices.
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The government has been deceived before by promises that somehow more concentration would produce more choices and competition, when the result has been just the opposite. It shouldn't be fooled again.
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The prices are soaring. With the end of final government oversight of cable rates, the prices will continue to soar, because most consumers do not have a choice. There's only one cable company in their community.
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There is no reason why they shouldn't be able to serve everyone in a community.
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There's no question that there was an enormous exaggeration of the benefits of the new fee agreement that hid substantial rate increases at a time when the [long-distance] companies themselves are getting significant cost savings.
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These were exaggerations. The market isn't developing to a competitive status nearly as fast as they had predicted and prices are going up for consumers. Consumers are getting the short end because these exaggerations drove Congress to a plan that was premature,
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This competition is a phantom out there that's only visible to the high end of the market.
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This demonstrates the enormous failure of antitrust oversight of the phone industry.
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This is a devastating blow to the consumer. This one will lead to the end of the era of falling prices for telephone and cell-phone service.
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This is an earth shattering reversal in competition policy from an agency that broke up [the AT&T] monopoly 21 years ago.
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This is an earth-shattering reversal of competition policy from the agency that 21 years ago broke up the Bell monopoly and today is coddling the dominant Bell companies who seek to re-monopolize each of their regions,
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This is devastating for consumers.
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This is the government making your TV go black and then only paying part of the costs for some of the people to make it work again, and none of the costs for others.
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This merger is extremely dangerous for consumers,
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