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I defer to you, but my take would be that the government simply declined to fight it on anti-trust grounds between ~1910-1970. On the other hand, I don't think
by ethbro 10y ago
I defer to you, but my take would be that the government simply declined to fight it on anti-trust grounds between ~1910-1970.
On the other hand, I don't think you can ignore Bell Labs or the fact they they did build some amazing infrastructure. Would the world have been better off on the whole with more competition in AT&T's heyday?
- jacobolus 10y agoGo read Tim Wu’s book The Master Switch. The details of these media/communications monopoly histories are fascinating. It’s hard to answer your counterfactual definitively, but probably, yes.