Mark Cooper Quotes (53 Quotes)

The simple fact of the matter is that competition is good for consumers.

It will kill competition, and it will also kill the incentive to innovate. Essentially, what these phone companies will do is start to pick and choose who wins in this market.

I firmly believe people are overpaying for local telephone service by 8 billion to 15 billion.

Tommy suffered the injury in training. He could be out for a month, which wouldn't leave much of the season left.

Two's not enough to provide true competition. These guys are getting ready to kill the Internet that's where this unregulated duopoly is headed.

We think it's awful. The Bells -- they are entrenched monopolists. Now that they face a little competition, they will do anything to kill it.

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.

These results show that although consumers believe network owners should provide unfettered access to the Internet, few believe they'll do so unless required by law. Our findings that consumers view the Internet as an important communications and information service only underscore the danger of discriminatory network practices.

Diversity They don't have diversity on cable. They can't show you diversity on the cable dial.

This reminds us that the fight over Net neutrality is even more important. ATT has already made it clear that they intend to engage in discrimination and pick and choose who has access to the Internet's fast lane.

Everyone is shocked by what has happened to Scott. It's like a bombshell has hit the club.

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.

The Internet is already an important avenue for participation in society.

One wonders whether the government showed up with a court order or an opinion letter from the attorney general. The Bells should at the very least inquire about the law that governs their situation. I hope a conversation ensued after the government made the request.

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.

Competition in cable is in a very bad state, ... Why would ATT do anything differently

Now that the e-commerce companies have weighed in, Congress will have to take a look. These are the brand names of the 21st century.

Losing competitors in this highly-concentrated industry is disastrous.

In the fourth quarter, we were able to really establish Pat down low, which gave Ryan a couple of good looks. Ryan is a good shooter and has been hot for us all season, and he put a couple of daggers in them with those two 3s. The seniors all got extensive minutes and made positive contributions, and that's what you like to see on Senior Night.

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.

The game should have been wrapped up after half-time. We had chances to kill it off but handed them the initiative.

There were a lot of clubs after Paul from the Championship, League One and big clubs in our league. But he doesn't want to go full-time and he doesn't want the travelling. I've got to know him over the last year when I've been trying to pinch some of his players on loan and he knows he can trust us.

It's more of the same, and the same is an ever-tightening oligopoly at the heart of the cable TV broadband Internet industry.

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.

The fiction that a lot of competition will protect the public is dead.

Nathan could have scored five goals in the second-half alone. Nathan has a lot of potential but he discovered the hardest part of the game is putting the ball in the net.

Once they decide what's normal and what's fast, (phone companies) are gatekeepers.

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.

One's true character shows through when you're faced with adversity, and our kids were force fed some this week, but responded like champions tonight. If we want to make a run at the NCIC, we know we've got to run the table because you can't expect Rock Falls to lose more than one game, so tonight we took that first step.

There are two sets of people who clearly made a lot of money last year the producers and traders as the price escalated.

In a competitive industry, people would have competed away the excess profits.

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.

As it becomes the main avenue of commerce and communications, people not connected to the Internet could become a new category of the disenfranchised,

We've been a fast-starting team for most of the year. It was a comfortable feeling to get out to a big lead. The middle two quarters it seemed like our advantage was between 10 and 13 points, which was close enough, but not far enough ahead.

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.

Consumers are trapped between a small group of powerful, non- competing oil companies out to maximize profits and weak governmental authorities who consistently fail to strengthen or enforce the law.

failure to agree to meaningful protections against pricing abuse means competitors can be squeezed out of the market and consumers face price increases.

It is critical for people to organize and react against the abuse of market power. This is a political reaction, as clear evidence that the economic market is not working. Whenever you have to discipline an economic power, it's a demonstration of the failure of market forces.

We're losing serious competitors for the residential consumer and the business market.

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.

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,

The public clearly understands the importance of open, nondiscriminatory access to the Internet from network owners.

If you were a business, you'd find people who would offer you service, ... if you look nationwide, there's virtually none anyplace.

While I understand that everyone would love to punish the oil companies, I want to solve the problem.

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.

There is no market to discipline the pricing in this industry. What you need to spend the next 18 months doing while you still have the authority is to establish the structural conditions that would let market forces be created,

This is the end of traditional head-to-head competition.

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.

Scott should have been on his way to a League club the next day, but instead he is in intensive care in hospital. I don't know what the future holds for him. It's too early to think about football. All we are concerned about is seeing him get healthy and on the road to recovery.

Carl is deadly from three yards out. That's the third time he's scored from there this season.