"Mark Cooper" is the name of:

*Mark Anthony Cooper (1800–1885), 19th century United States congressman

*Mark Cooper (academic), senior research fellow for economic analysis and nuclear power industry commentator

*Mark A. Cooper (born 1963), American geneticist and Director of Genetics for Cobb-Vantress, Inc.

*Mark Cooper (footballer, born 1967), English football player for Leyton Orient and Northampton Town

*Mark Cooper (footballer, born 1968), English football player for Hartlepool United and Tamworth and manager of Swindon Town

*Mark Cooper (American football) (born 1960), former American football guard in the National Football League for the Denver Broncos and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

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We don't see how that can help competition, and ultimately we think it results in the restriction in the program that gets to the public and higher prices.

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There is no market to discipline the pricing in this industry. What you need to spend the next 18 months doing while you still have the authority is to establish the structural conditions that would let market forces be created.

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Armstrong has a problem. He has locked up so many lines that he really violates the anti-trust laws in terms of concentration of market power. He's trying to get below the radar screen of the anti-trust authorities.

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Consumers are trapped between a small group of powerful, non- competing oil companies out to maximize profits and weak governmental authorities who consistently fail to strengthen or enforce the law.

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

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The simple fact of the matter is that competition is good for consumers.

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They have failed to expand capacity to discipline price.

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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.

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I firmly believe people are overpaying for local telephone service by $8 billion to $15 billion.

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