This competition is a phantom out there that's only visible to the high end of the market.

undermine more than 20 years of efforts to introduce competition into residential and long-distance telecommunications markets.

This is an earth shattering reversal in competition policy from an agency that broke up [the AT&T] monopoly 21 years ago.

This is an earth-shattering reversal of competition policy from the agency that 21 years ago broke up the Bell monopoly and today is coddling the dominant Bell companies who seek to re-monopolize each of their regions,

It's an elite clientele, probably the top 20 percent of the market that's attractive.

The ballgame becomes now how each of the two industries that controls a wire can determine what content, what access, at what speed consumers and technologists can offer and retrieve services over those networks,