On 4/26/2014 3:01 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
On Apr 24, 2014, at 8:38 PM, Larry Sheldon <larryshel...@cox.net>
wrote:
Monopolies can not persist without regulation.
This is absolutely false. Regulating monopolies CAN protect
monopolies, but that’s not always the outcome.
Monopolies absolutely can persist without regulation. Except in the
most highly dense population areas, there is not a sufficient market
to support the deployment of more than one copy of a given media type
to that population. As a result, there is, in most places, a natural
monopoly in each media type, whether that’s electrical, water, cable,
twisted pair, fiber, etc.
Sounds like the market at work, not monopoly power......I've never heard
the term "monopoly" used where the market contains all the players that
want to play.
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