I firmly believe people are overpaying for local telephone service by $8 billion to $15 billion.
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 telephone and cable companies got the bill they wanted.
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.