Gene Kimmelman
Gene Kimmelman
Gene Kimmelman is a consumer protection advocate who specializes in competition law and United States antitrust law...
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This demonstrates the enormous failure of antitrust oversight of the phone industry.
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It is the inevitable backslide toward monopoly and results from excessive deregulation and weak antitrust oversight.
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I think we are on a slippery slope to something that hopefully will be much better for consumers. Consumers could wind up with more choices and more control over what they spend and what they get.
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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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Congress and federal regulators need to look carefully at the lifeless competition their flawed policies have created and reject this merger.
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It's an elite clientele, probably the top 20 percent of the market that's attractive.
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Rubber-stamping these mergers is an embarrassing milestone in this nation because it puts an end to any real hope of head-to-head telephone competition.
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AT&T is taking these cost reductions as profit.
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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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Every potential benefit they describe is exactly what monopolists always say: You can get new services, but you have to pay more.
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We'll be extremely disappointed if antitrust officials do not require more substantial divestment of assets.
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We think this is really going to open up a whole new debate on the benefits of letting consumers pick their own channels on cable television.
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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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What they're doing is combining local telephone monopolies from the Rio Grande all the way to the Great Lakes plus California. These are markets that have not been opened to competition.