Antitrust

Verizon-Cable Hearing Exposes Weakness of Opposition

The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on the proposed Verizon-Cable spectrum sale flushed out the opposition’s best arguments and evidence and they proved surprisingly weak and sparse. Behind the façade of FreePress’ trademark bumper-sticker bluster of “a competition crisis,” “a creeping duopoly,” and “spectrum warehousing,” there...
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Verizon-Cable Senate Hearing – Competitive Reality vs. FreePress Fiction

Hopefully, the March 21st Senate Judiciary Subcommittee oversight hearing on the Verizon-Cable spectrum transaction will be a fair hearing based on the competitive facts and the law, and is not allowed to be hijacked politically by FreePress’ signature gamesmanship. I. FreePress Fiction It is disturbing...
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Verizon-Cable: Opponents Need FCC to Overreach its Authority

The March 21st Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing reviewing the Verizon-cable agreements provides Congress with an opportunity to learn: How the metamorphosis of communications competition is increasing competition; How the Government has created artificial and temporary spectrum scarcity in failing to free up more spectrum for...
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