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AT&T: Meet the New US GSM Monopoly

Posted by timothy on from the for-some-values-of-monopoly dept.

itwbennett writes "Why should consumers care about the AT&T/T-mobile merger? Already, Verizon has dropped unlimited data plans and the US trails Japan, South Korea, and others in variety and performance of mobiles. Don't think for a second that those aren't the direct result this new monopoly, says blogger Tom Henderson. '...Those pesky State agencies that used to have regulatory authority has been usurped by the US Federal Government,' writes Henderson. 'This wasn't an accident. Who would you rather deal with, 43 different state regulatory authorities, or those convenient people on Capitol Hill?'"

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  1. free market by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure the free market will take care of this issue.

    1. Re:free market by CyprusBlue113 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Umm, no, it is the regulation of the single tech spectrum that is exactly why other countries have better mobile infrastructure, not stupidly creating more islands of spectrum.

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      a handful of selfish greedy people are no match for millions of selfish, greedy people -u4ya
    2. Re:free market by __Reason__ · · Score: 5, Insightful

      AT&T is a bit like the liquid metal terminator from Terminator 2. You can break it into little pieces, but somehow, eventually, it'll find a way to reassemble itself and become a monopoly again.