[antidote] Re: Bell Skunkworks claims CFA lacks Objectivity????
- From: jim rogers <jimorogers@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: antidote@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:17:51 -0800 (PST)
Try this:
www.consumerfed.org/unep_200310.pdf
--- Bruce Kushnick <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Does anyone have a link to the CFA Report?
>
> I love it when Bell skunkworks comes out stating
> that CFA, the Consumer Advocates -- "Lacks
> Objectivity" The author, Stephen B. Pociask,
> President of TeleNomic Research, LLC. His resume
> states that "Chief Economist and Director for a
> major telecommunications provider."--- but according
> to an author note in an article he wrote for
> America's Network in 1998, he was the former Chief
> Economist for Bell Atlantic. (Author note: Steven C.
> Pociask is executive vice president and chief
> economist for the economic consulting firm, Joel
> Popkin and Co. (Washington). He previously was chief
> economist for Bell Atlantic Corp. ("Two Degrees of
> Structrual Separation" Stephen B. Pociask; America's
> Network, Duluth; Dec 15, 1998; Vol. 102, Iss. 24;
> pg. 38, 4 pgs.))
>
> or that a closer look at New Millennium Research
> Council,
> http://www.newmillenniumresearch.org/, one of the
> sponsors of the report,
> seems to indicate it's yet another bell
> funded/influenced group, since the
> research group is a project of "IDI" --
> "The NMRC is an independent project of Issue
> Dynamics, Inc.
> (IDI), a consumer and public affairs consulting firm
> that specializes in
> developing win-win solutions to complex policy
> issues."
>
>
> ===================================
>
> Report: CFA's 'Crossroads' Telecom Study Lacks
> Objectivity; Fraught with Problems
> Misstated Facts, Erroneous Data, Findings on Market
> Events That Never Occurred Appear to Make
> Predetermined Conclusions
> Press Release
> by CEI Staff
> December 9, 2003
>
> Competitive Enterprise Institute
>
>
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
>
>
> Report: CFA's 'Crossroads' Telecom Study Lacks
> Objectivity; Fraught with Problems
>
>
>
> Misstated Facts, Erroneous Data, Findings on Market
> Events That
>
> Never Occurred Appear to Make Predetermined
> Conclusions
>
>
>
> Washington, D.C., December 9, 2003 -- A new report
> released today by the Competitive Enterprise
> Institute (CEI) and the New Millennium Research
> Council (NMRC) analyzing an October 2003 policy
> study issued by the Consumer Federation of America
> (CFA), Competition at the Crossroads: Can Public
> Utility Commissions Save Local Phone Competition?'
> finds that the CFA study takes positions and makes
> claims not supported by empirical evidence and
> misapplies data to support conclusions. The CFA
> study paints a picture that competition has failed
> in the telecom industry, and the industry will
> re-monopolize and increase consumer prices. The CEI
> and NMRC report strongly disputes these CFA study
> claims.
>
>
>
> The new CEI and NMRC report, Is Phone "Competition
> at the Crossroads?": An Analysis of the Consumer
> Federation of America's Local Competition Study, is
> the first to critically review the CFA study and
> analyze its data and conclusions. Having previously
> examined the effects of unbundled network elements
> (UNEs) in the states, the CEI and NMRC undertook
> this critique to assess the basis of the CFA study
> claims. Today's report presents the views of two
> telecommunications experts - Solveig Singleton,
> Senior Policy Analyst for CEI and Stephen B.
> Pociask, President of TeleNomic Research, LLC.
>
>
>
> Both authors debunk the CFA study's three main
> arguments it said were used by the Regional Bell
> Operating Companies for raising UNE wholesale prices
> and for restricting the availability of UNEs:
>
>
>
>
>
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