All of those types of businesses have orders of magnitude lower entry costs to start up a business. The capital needed for any of those is no where near what it would cost to lay fiber, cabling, or however you are going to work your telco out. Additionally setting up a new network would involve either cooperation from thousands of individual property owners or from the government. So in the case where the lines are privately owned with no regulation the start up for a new competitor is basically impossible.
Additionally as industries mature they tend to consolidate as well.
We have what 4 major oil companies now(BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, ChevTex), 2 major soft drink companies Coke and Pepsi, Candy is pretty Mars or Nestle.
Furthermore in all those examples you cited they are dealing with when you get down to it, luxury items. Competition is probably not as much of a factor of keeping their prices down as the finding the maxium profitability on your sales curve. Because even if there was only one source for say hamburgers and they decdided to raise their price to $50 dollars people would just stop buying them. Basic voice/data is a very different situation, to be able to function in modern soceity you are expected to have a telephone and incressingly more an email.
I do believe one of the big issues here is that there was absolutely zero judicial oversight. That and what is supposed to agency restricted to operating overseas observing US citizens on US soil.
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Well if generating electrical power becomes trivial enough it would probably be easy to mass produce hydrogen via electolysis to be used to vehicle fuel.
But if according to that same universe the reason that C3P0 and R2 are unique and have personalities is because for some reason they do not experience memory wipes like other droids.
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All of those types of businesses have orders of magnitude lower entry costs to start up a business. The capital needed for any of those is no where near what it would cost to lay fiber, cabling, or however you are going to work your telco out. Additionally setting up a new network would involve either cooperation from thousands of individual property owners or from the government. So in the case where the lines are privately owned with no regulation the start up for a new competitor is basically impossible. Additionally as industries mature they tend to consolidate as well. We have what 4 major oil companies now(BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, ChevTex), 2 major soft drink companies Coke and Pepsi, Candy is pretty Mars or Nestle. Furthermore in all those examples you cited they are dealing with when you get down to it, luxury items. Competition is probably not as much of a factor of keeping their prices down as the finding the maxium profitability on your sales curve. Because even if there was only one source for say hamburgers and they decdided to raise their price to $50 dollars people would just stop buying them. Basic voice/data is a very different situation, to be able to function in modern soceity you are expected to have a telephone and incressingly more an email.
I do believe one of the big issues here is that there was absolutely zero judicial oversight. That and what is supposed to agency restricted to operating overseas observing US citizens on US soil.
Well if generating electrical power becomes trivial enough it would probably be easy to mass produce hydrogen via electolysis to be used to vehicle fuel.
Dangit there goes my free access to Cerebro
But if according to that same universe the reason that C3P0 and R2 are unique and have personalities is because for some reason they do not experience memory wipes like other droids.
Yeah at least he wasnt cross-eyed(Kilmer) or in the biggest disgrace in recent hollywood(Clooney in BM&R)
Yeah and Michael Clark Duncan is gonna be Kingpin.