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| Re: Not up to McDowell; the General Counsel is the key said by qdemn7  :said by ropeguru :Whether or not it is ethincs on McDowell or Martin, it is still an ethics issue in my opinion. Guess I'm missing something. What exactly IS the ethics issue?  The fact that McDowell used to be on the telecom payroll and his opinion and vote would be biased towards approving for finanacial gain.
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2 edits | Re: Not up to McDowell; the General Counsel is the key said by ropeguru :said by qdemn7 :said by ropeguru :Whether or not it is ethincs on McDowell or Martin, it is still an ethics issue in my opinion. Guess I'm missing something. What exactly IS the ethics issue? The fact that McDowell used to be on the telecom payroll and his opinion and vote would be biased towards approving for finanacial gain. Actually, it is just the opposite. He represented a CLEC association before the FCC and argued for conditions to a merger. And that is why he excused himself from the AT&T/BS merger case. That would seem to indicate he would be against an AT&T merger without conditions.
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| Re: Not up to McDowell; the General Counsel is the key Re: Not up to McDowell; the General Counsel is the key
I don't follow - what is General Counsel?
Also, when they are saying the fix is in, what are they referring to? This article is a little vague....
There's no way Whitacre is going to let this merger fall through in my opinion. He's personally spent the last 11 years undoing the telecom Act of 96 piece by piece and now are we to believe he's willing to walk away when there's only 3 companies left? I'm glad (and suprised) the democrats have opposed this merger. When the merger is complete (and whitacre will make sure that it gets done) the loser is going to be the consumer.  | |
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Dallas, TX | Re: Not up to McDowell; the General Counsel is the key Thanks for the clarification. Man this is a mess. | |
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| said by T1 Rocky :There's no way Whitacre is going to let this merger fall through in my opinion. He's personally spent the last 11 years undoing the telecom Act of 96 piece by piece and now are we to believe he's willing to walk away when there's only 3 companies left? What has he been doing that undoes the Telecom Act of 1996?
When the merger is complete (and whitacre will make sure that it gets done) the loser is going to be the consumer. | |
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| Actually, it is just the opposite. He represented a CLEC association before the FCC and argued for conditions to a merger. And that is why he excused himself from the AT&T/BS merger case. That would seem to indicate he would be against an AT&T merger without conditions.
Exactly. The anti-telco zealots, including DSLPrime, seem conveniently to forget the fact that he used to be a lobbyist FOR THE COMPETITION. Doesn't exactly scream that "the fix is in" (at least for AT&T) does it?
But hey, what would the zealots whine about if they paid attention to those pesky 'fact' things, right?
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