Mark Cooper Cable Quotations

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,

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.

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

The telephone and cable companies got the bill they wanted.

Competition in cable is in a very bad state, ... Why would AT&T do anything differently?

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

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.