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Top US Antitrust Official Uncertain of Need For Four Wireless Carriers (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: The head of the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust division, Makan Delrahim, declined on Friday to support the Obama administration's firm backing of the need for four U.S. wireless carriers. Asked about T-Mobile's plan to buy Sprint for $26 billion, Delrahim declined to reiterate the view of President Barack Obama's enforcers, who had said that four wireless carriers were needed. Instead, Delrahim told reporters, "I don't think there's any magical number that I'm smart enough to glean." He also said the department would look at the companies' arguments that the proposed merger was needed for them to build the next generation of wireless, referred to as 5G, but that they had to prove their case.
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Your objection is nonsensical. It’s impossible to know how many planets exist in the universe, yet I can unequivocally affirm it is not less than four.
You can be unable to state a number yet be assured it must be bounded in some way.
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You can be unable to state a number yet be assured it must be bounded in some way.
I cannot know the number.
Therefore, how can I presume to know the correct BOUNDS for the number as well?
I am pretty sure the number is bounded at two, without two there is no competition. Any number larger than that is probably better - how much better, you cannot say.
Why the hell does anyone think four is a better number than three, in a field that relies so much on coverage and vast costs of developing and maintaining same? A simple thought experiment yields three as certainly a better number than four - otherwise why not ten million carriers? One for each of us? (See: Portlandia).
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The market has no way to stop mergers that eliminate competition. Government intervention is literally the only way to do it.
who's very pro-corporate. He then proceeded to pack his cabinet with pro-corporate lobbyists (mostly the same ex Goldman Sachs folks who have been running the show since Clinton). This isn't anything we shouldn't have expected. What I don't get is why anybody thought they were going to drain the swamp or change the status quo. The onion made fun of this, talking about how middle America was putting their hopes in a man who literally sits on golden thrones... Jeez. I don't even... I can't...
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History has shown that government repeatedly screws its own citizens if left to its own devices.
The problem isn't Government or Corporations, it is people will screw each other over if left to their own devices. There is plenty of literature that explores this in detail. Making simplistic statements of blame is easy. Finding a solution that isn't "We must do something. This is something. Therefore we must do it" is not easy.
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