1. Hundt's, his boyhood best-friend's (Al Gore), and his hand-picked successor's (Bill Kennard) less-than-stellar pro-consumer policy track record for telecoms and related services, however, it appears that so long as Messrs. Hundt, Gore (see 12 June 1998 Statement of Vice President Gore (I will fight vigorously "efforts by those who would turn out the lights on our children by pulling the plug on the E-rate;former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt remarked simply that the merging parties are "asking the Government the following question: How many telephone companies is the smallest number you can accept,1998
2. And if you walked up to her house now, you'd see twenty or thirty --or fifty --people. They're her customers. Some sit in her house, on chairs if they get there early enough. Others sit on the floor. The rest are lined up outside. And this goes on every day. Why? What's happened to transform a woman who had no work nine months ago into an entrepreneurial success story? She got a loan from Gramin Bank --and bought a cell phone. Noa Begum lives only 20 miles from Daka, the capital of Bangladesh. Still, most of her neighbors have never have more competition with fewer players in the market;I want to start by telling you about somebody from the tiny village of Bora in Bangladesh. Her name is Noa Jahan Begum
3. Emphasis supplied.) 122 On a similar note, consumer welfare should also not be sacrificed to pander to union/organized labor interests. See, e.g., Aron Bernstein, More Telecom Mergers, More Union Cards;/ Ameritech;NAACP v. FPC, 425 U.S,1998
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