Kyle McSlarrow
Kyle McSlarrow
Kyle E. McSlarrow, a former Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Energy and Congressional candidate, is the head of Comcast's lobbying and government-affairs office, which now includes NBCUniversal lawyers and lobbyists...
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There's a mismatch between what we do and what people think on the Hill. If anything, this industry has been too modest. We ought to be shouting from the rooftops.
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The hands-off policy has given us the flexibility to innovate and respond to consumer demand.
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The marketplace in which cable, satellite, broadcasters and others vigorously compete for customers should decide video offerings - not mandates and price controls imposed by Washington, D.C.. The notion that the government knows better how to improve on a competitive marketplace is not supported by the evidence.
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It is clearly a sweetheart deal for an industry that doesn't deserve a special break and a competitive advantage over anybody.
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It is important to take stock of where we are in 2006. In the last decade, the Bell monopolies have all but wiped out their telephone competitors; they have swallowed their long-distance competitors; and with the announcement of the AT&T-BellSouth merger, they are on the verge of recreating Ma Bell. And only one competitor really stands in their way: the cable industry.
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It's not a problem. I don't know how many ways to say it. If you're going to write down the rules and make them mandatory, you're going to hand over a lot of wealth creation to lawyers...We should be very careful before stepping into this space--we should not panic.
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We continue to believe that the better course is for the government to resist injecting itself into a thriving, dynamic market where investment and innovation are flourishing.