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Free to Compete is designed to educate consumers on the invaluable role competition plays in bringing innovative technologies and services to the marketplace. This website will enable you to reach out to your representatives in Congress and voice your support for the preservation of a vibrant competitive communications marketplace.

Leading competitive communications service providers have released ECONOMIC STUDIES that dismiss Qwest's claims that wireless competition has in any significant way reduced the Baby Bell’s market power. The independent analysis challenges Qwest’s use of so-called “wireless substitution” to justify its current pleas before the FCC to no longer be required to play by the rules.

The Federal Communications Commission faces a July 26, 2008 deadline to issue a decision on petitions filed by Qwest that ask the federal agency for relief from pro-consumer and pro-competitive regulations in four major metropolitan areas across the United States. Click here to learn more about the issue and to voice your support for competition!

Qwest's petitions affect 13 million Americans, or 4.6 million households, in broad areas surrounding Seattle, Minneapolis, Denver and Phoenix.

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	Studies of long distance and local calling bills over the last six years show that as competition goes up, bills go down. After VoIP entered the competition in 2002 there was a 13% decline from 2002 to 2005 in long distance costs. Bills were decreasing as the competition increased.