Mark Cooper
Mark Cooper
competition
This is the end of traditional head-to-head competition.
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Basically, you've got one and two in programming and one and two in system operations now all interconnected in a little knot.
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If you were a business, you'd find people who would offer you service, ... if you look nationwide, there's virtually none anyplace.
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Losing competitors in this highly-concentrated industry is disastrous.
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The telephone and cable companies got the bill they wanted.
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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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Everyone now sees that we're going to get an economic slowdown as a result of gasoline.
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Nelson is an all-conference player, and when he gets going it's difficult to guard him. He beat us in a variety of ways.
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The simple fact of the matter is that competition is good for consumers.
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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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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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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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Once they decide what's normal and what's fast, (phone companies) are gatekeepers.