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Ma Bell Stifled Innovation, AT&T May Do the Same
An anonymous reader writes "AT&T recently announced it plans to acquire T-Mobile to create the largest wireless network in the US. If the deal is allowed to complete, it will create only three major players in the industry with Verizon being a close second and Sprint being a distant third. Sprint, along with consumer rights groups, have already cried foul. They argue that AT&T's proposed acquisition will stifle competition and innovation."
Yeah, there's that, but what else has Bell ever done for us?
You have confused Socialism and Communism. Please go fuck off and kill yourself and your family. The World will thank you.
This is kind of like saying "I hope Darth Vader doesn't force-choke me"
US wireless providers are to competition what diarrhea is to shit. It may be competition, but it's not particularly healthy.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
We got transistors from the alien craft that crashed at Roswell.
Don't they teach you anything in school?
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
That's because that Mieses guy has 10 outlets on every wall, each with a little display of what electricity would cost that second for whatever was plugged in there. His shower has three faucets and a lever that switches the hot water heater between gas lines. He can't be reached by phone unless you're lucky enough to know which phone line he's got his phone plugged into that day.
And he's That Guy who doesn't watch TV, so he doesn't give a damn about cable.
Clearly he knows a thing or two about not having natural monopolies.
To be fair percentage wise only a very small number of Imperial Officers got force choked.