1. Fair,' to any self-respecting antitrust lawyer or economist, should be yet another obscene, four-letter word. 'Competition' requires rivalry -there is no notion of 'equity' in this term;See The Search for Meaning at 21
2. Thus, once regulators start to level the playing field to be "fair" to one competitor, "all the other competitors will find something unfair to them and will want their valleys to be filled and their mountains and hills to be brought low. The process can become an endless one and, if carried to its logical conclusion, makes the regulator into a cartel manager;John Berresford;Future of the FCC: Promote Competition, Then Turn Out the Lights? 21-22,1997