Competitive Companies Inc. (fka CCOP)

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Possibility of being 'Out in the Cold'?: The auction is a historic opportunity, according to Gene Kimmelman, vice president of federal and international affairs for Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine. And under the draft rules, the "big will get bigger," he predicted.

While pleased with the move to free devices from carrier control, he said the agency was in danger of wasting the "best opportunity in modern history to jump-start Internet competition and bring new players to challenge the dominant telephone and cable companies."

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