As New York Telecom Choice Flourishes, Packages, Values and Service to Consumers Improve

As New York Telecom Choice Flourishes, Packages, Values and Service to Consumers Improve

Phone customers are benefiting from unprecedented competition, investment and service quality under market-based policies of the New York Public Service Commission. However, anti-competitive factions are working behind the scenes to thwart the progress that consumers enjoy. Today, Verizon officials and telecommunications industry experts urged the state to continue this progress. Participating in a dial-in news conference were:

Maura Breen, Verizon senior vice president and general manager for New York; Michael Balhoff, managing partner at Balhoff & Rowe, LLC; Mitchell Moss, Henry Hart Rice professor of urban policy and planning at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University; and Robert Puckett, president of the New York State Telecommunications Association.

“The world of phone service has changed dramatically in the last few years,” said Breen. “There is more competition than ever today, with New Yorkers communicating over the Internet, over the airwaves and over their cable TV networks. This intense competition has brought consumers more choice, better prices and better service.”
However, Breen warned that there are forces at work to drag New York back into the 1900s. “Some are campaigning to force the state Public Service Commission back to the monopoly regulation days of the 1900s,” she said. “This misguided approach harkens back to the days when the consumer had few, if any, choices for service, and prices were set by the government.”

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