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,

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.

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,