These mergers are a big step toward recreating the old AT&T monopoly that the Reagan administration courageously dismantled.

In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step.

It appears that he is determined to go forward and give the Bell [companies] the maximum relief.

There are no benefits in this merger for consumers or the U.S. economy. This merger continues the anticompetitive resurrection of the old Bell monopoly.

This really is a gigantic step backwards and, if enacted, would lead to the death of the Internet.

The scope of this almost whimsical action by the commission is unbelievable.