What industry are we talking about here? Yes, the DoJ broke up AT&T because it was a monopoly in the phone industry. When we talk about Bell Labs and R&D, tho

What industry are we talking about here? Yes, the DoJ broke up AT&T because it was a monopoly in the phone industry. When we talk about Bell Labs and R&D, though, we usually aren't talking about the phone industry. We're usually talking about things from semiconductors to computer science. And yes, Bell Labs was very good for that. You're the one who made the first claim, that Bell Labs was "bad for the industry". It's your claim; it's your job to defend it, not mine to prove it wrong. So let's see your case that Bell Labs was bad.