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Prof. Nicholas Economides on competition in the telecommunications industry

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Excerpt from The Verge -- "A choice of just two, even three, providers isn’t enough to create a competitive market that will keep a check on prices, said Nicholas Economides, an economics professor at New York University who studies telecommunications. 'The only competition that remains is between telephone internet service providers and cable internet service providers — if you have it,' Economides said. 'That’s the real problem, and that’s why we don’t have enough competition and higher prices.'"

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