“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 re-creating Ma Bell. And only one competitor really stands in their way: the cable industry.”
Kyle McSlarrow
“She's a competitor - been a basketball player herself. So we don't do anything competitive with cards or monopoly or anything. We just watch movies or watch a ballgame. We keep it like that. We've had our wars before on different things. So we decided it's best we don't do it anymore.”
Buzz Peterson
“The notion is not that if you're a monopoly, you compete less vigorously or with more deference to your competitors, ... The interest in antitrust law is for the protection of consumers, not individual competitors.”
Charles Rule
“This merger threatens to undermine the competitive gains achieved by this department when it challenged AT&T's telephone monopoly [20] years ago,”
Janet Reno
“Wireless is the only competitor for local phone monopolies, ... If the FCC makes it easier for customers to cut the cord, that's our best hope for a competitive local market.”
Chris Murray
“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.”
Gene Kimmelman
“Louisiana has [no] monopoly on rogues, rapscallions, shakedowns and kickbacks. Nor is it the only place where a few officials have endeared themselves to the electorate by means of the utter disorder of their private lives.”
Jon Nordheimer
