Approval of these mergers undermines more than 20 years of efforts to introduce competition into the residential local and long distance telecommunications market, ... The FCC promises cross-technology competition with Internet phone service on cable and telephone systems, but the Commission has failed to ensure that consumers will receive meaningful choices at fair prices.
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We are going to see fewer players, fewer choices for consumers, and that will lead to inflated prices and not as many good deals for consumers.Gene Kimmelman
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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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.
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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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