25 Quotes by Gene Kimmelman

We are asking the Justice Department to step in and block this.

Every potential benefit they describe is exactly what monopolists always say: You can get new services, but you have to pay more.

Congress and federal regulators need to look carefully at the lifeless competition their flawed policies have created and reject this merger.

Congress and federal regulators need to look carefully at the lifeless 'competition' their flawed policies have created and reject this merger. The government has been deceived before by promises that somehow more concentration would produce more choices and competition, when the result has been just the opposite. It shouldn't be fooled again.

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,

Rubber-stamping these mergers is an embarrassing milestone in this nation because it puts an end to any real hope of head-to-head telephone competition.

This is the government making your TV go black and then only paying part of the costs for some of the people to make it work again, and none of the costs for others.

This demonstrates the enormous failure of antitrust oversight of the phone industry.

This is a devastating blow to the consumer. This one will lead to the end of the era of falling prices for telephone and cell-phone service.