Original sentence: The Kill Your Television website that advocated people turn off their television sets, had a criticism of the law as well
Edited sentence: MCI and the other inter-exchange carriers (IXC) were all severely impacted by the Telecommunications Act of 1996.The end of MCI marked the end of an era in which the global telecommunications market prospered through wide spread innovation, customer service, and high growth fostered by a free market open to a wide number of competitors.The implementation of the Act led to a complete reversal of the growth of the telecommunications sector.The now-defunct Kill Your Television website that advocated people turn off their television sets, had a criticism of the law as well.The original intent of the Act was to provide more competition but the bill actually did the reverse.Today, the telecommunications market is an oligopoly ushered in by the opposite form of government involvement that created the breakup of Ma Bell in 1984.Where the divestiture of AT&T (Ma Bell) in 1984 led to dozens of long distance companies being formed, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 provided for the consolidation where in 2006 only Cingular, Sprint & Verizon exist.Within two years of the act, MCI was part of a consolidation effort that started with Worldcom purchasing them and ultimately led to bankruptcy and loss of retirements for their loyal employees and finally absorption into Verizon