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How to Make Sure the US Dominates 21st-Century Telecommunications

Jim Taft
Last updated: August 9, 2025 1:21 pm
By Jim Taft 5 Min Read
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       Trump’s announcement and executive order to ensure that the U.S. dominates the artificial intelligence revolution was a welcome America First policy directive. That mostly means keeping the government out of the way.





        But an equally vital industry for our economic and national security interests is telecommunications — which is also going through warp-speed technology changes.

        Here too, the government needs to keep its hands off. No subsidies. No lawsuits. Minimal regulations.

        This is why the latest $34.5 billion blockbuster merger between telecom titans Charter Communications and Cox Communications should get the green light from federal regulators.

        Some antitrust lawyers at the Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department worry this marriage would give Charter-Cox too much market share, allowing them to raise prices on consumers.

        But companies like Cox that provide internet and TV services over cable transmissions are soon to be outdated by the next generation of fiber, satellite, fixed wireless and mobile broadband services.

        Customers are already “cutting the cable cord” in favor of more efficient and less expensive streaming video services and other digital alternatives.

        The synergies and economies-of-scale advantages driving the Charter-Cox merger, which will lead to a company with over 37 million cable and internet subscribers, make sense.





        Is that too much market concentration?

        Comcast, the nation’s second-largest cable provider, serves around 12 million cable subscribers. Verizon serves just under 3 million cable subscribers and approximately 146 million mobile subscribers.

        AT&T, another big player in this market, has tens of millions of customers of its own. AT&T is moving aggressively into satellite technologies and 5G to deliver calls, data and video. AT&T and Verizon each have a market cap of well over $100 billion. That compares to less than $50 billion for the Charter-Cox union. In other words, competitors aren’t going to be bullied out of the market by Charter-Cox — especially in the lucrative mobile communications arena.

        What is ironic is that back in the 1980s, AT&T was forced by the government to break itself up because of alleged market power, and now we could have federal regulators blocking a merger that would bring new competition to AT&T (and other big kids on the block, like Comcast and Verizon).

        As for the Charter-Cox potential dominance in cable, sorry, but that’s a declining industry.

        Within a decade or so, cable will be as outdated as Blockbuster.





        Mergers like this one make U.S. companies more competitive, make money for millions of American shareholders, and make our companies scalable to compete with European, Japanese and Chinese rivals.

        Gail Slater, the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, recently said she intends to focus on mergers that decrease competition. “If you’re violating the antitrust laws, we’re going to take a hard look. If you’re not violating the antitrust laws, we’re going to get the hell out of the way.”

        Those are words to live by.

        Stephen Moore is a cofounder of Unleash Prosperity and a former senior economic adviser to Donald Trump. His new book, coauthored with Arthur Laffer, is “The Trump Economic Miracle.”





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