Mark Cooper
Mark Cooper
apparent average cable choices company compete consumer guys knows phone rather
We thought that these guys were going to compete with each other, but it's apparent that they would rather just merge. If the average consumer is lucky, he or she has two choices now: the phone company or the cable company. And the average consumer knows that two choices is not enough.
cable company costs decided gone integrated left pocket profits saying shift
When you say programming costs have gone up, what you are saying is a vertically integrated cable company has decided to shift the profits from the left pocket to the right pocket,
bill cable companies telephone
The telephone and cable companies got the bill they wanted.
cable diversity
Diversity? They don't have diversity on cable. They can't show you diversity on the cable dial.
bad cable competition
Competition in cable is in a very bad state, ... Why would AT&T do anything differently?
broadband cable heart internet tv
It's more of the same, and the same is an ever-tightening oligopoly at the heart of the cable TV broadband Internet industry.
average broadband cable choice choices company consumer gone monopoly telephone today wakes
The average consumer today wakes up with only two choices for full-service broadband communications, which is the future: the telephone company and the cable company. What we've gone from is a regulated monopoly to an unregulated duopoly.
life might people remember seeing telling
I think it's nice. I've wanted all my life to see this happen. I remember people telling me when I was little I might live long enough to see it happen. And now I'm seeing it.
competition gets help higher program public results ultimately
We don't see how that can help competition, and ultimately we think it results in the restriction in the program that gets to the public and higher prices.
players
My players should feel embarrassed, especially the seniors.
case operating percent price stayed system worst
the price for its operating system should have come down 3 percent or in the worst case stayed flat.
love oil punish solve understand
While I understand that everyone would love to punish the oil companies, I want to solve the problem.
bottom goals people
We conceded two goals from set-pieces because people were not doing their jobs. We are down at the bottom and have to get on with it.
charge customers
You haven't innovated anything that you want to charge these customers for.