They are filling the pockets of the baby bells. Monopolies are far better Repulican donors than competitive companies. Republicans will always help to decrease competition while preaching capitalism non-stop. This is why I'm not a Republican. There is no capitalism without competition.
Socialism is light years more efficient than a monopoly.
Inflation is, arguably, caused mainly by big organizations which consolidate power over a resource like oil or railroads or phones or Internet, and discover that they can maintain the same customer base while jacking up prices. Everyone's cost of living goes up and we all demand pay raises to cover it. At the current rate this is unfolding, perhaps by November 2002 it will become sufficiently evident to the American public that these anti-competition conservatives are not to be trusted with our economic future. Yeah, that's about the only time I liked Clinton. When he was talking to the populists instead of the soccer moms.