Another 43 votes. How would you get it through . It is an honest approach, victoria. I dont know what your approach is, you havent told me. 0k, to get it through parliament off how . Convincing mps to vote for it. Well also be talking to mps backing the other candidates and members of the conservative party wholl be the ones who get the final say on who will become our new Prime Minister. And Harvey Weinsteins former personal assistant is supporting a campaign for a global law to protect workers from violence and sexual harrassment in the workplace. Im ina im in a situation where you think my a ccess im in a situation where you think my access to justice was pretty simple. And in less developed cultures, a womans access to justice is almost nil. So having global legislation that will help and protect them is incredibly important. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. The morning after the night before how do you think all the candidates racing to be your new
Posted this week on the communicators a discussion of the fccs proposal to open up the settop box market to competition and what that might mean for consumers and businesses. Joining us are two guests on both sides of this issue. George ford is a chief economist and mark cooper is Research Director for the Consumer Federation of america. Mr. Cooper what do you think about what they have proposed . Guest competition the settop market. We want competition, competition, competition. We think consumers would have lower prices and more choices if we got bigger as competition to. Host george ford. Guest they asked the question whether the settop docsis competitive. Actually the first question this is their market for set top docsis and the answer really in terms of what is delivered over cable network, no because the settop boxes are a component of the network as opposed to delivering Cable Television service so its the cheapest way to do it in the most efficient way to do it. Host lets brin
The most efficient. The companies would prefer a market if it was more efficient. Host lets bring lydia beyoud in she is with bloomberg. Up, kevinfollow wheeler come in introducing this idea said he wants to open up this market and make it more where consumers can buy their own devices like with mobile phones, tvs, and other electronics. Do either of you think there is something similar or different to that analogy that would make it such this proposal would or would not work . We think it is the perfect analogy. You have the interface between the device and network. It would be possible for people to sell across the interface. It is just Like Computers or modems. Microsoft case was about the interface, the court said, open the interface, and you get competition. We have seen that time and time again. Remember the old telephone market . , no one can say plug a phone and, they will blow it up. They were wrong. We got tremendous cover edition. Competition. That is our point. Open the int
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