The threat of competition associated with monopoly repeal has helped postal services in those countries to become more efficient, more effective enterprises.
Critics of the deal, including the National Association of Broadcasters, a trade association that represents thousands of traditional radio and television stations, contend that the merger would eliminate competition and create a monopoly.
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And thus, through competition, remove the monopoly.
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It stands to reason that replacing OPEC's monopoly with fuel competition will force the cartel and commodities speculators to drop the price of oil.
Where fuel competition is afforded and the monopoly gasoline currently enjoys in the United States is broken, the costs of powering the transportation sector are dramatically reduced.
The hottest market is India, where the combination of a staid state broadcaster with a free-to-air monopoly and fierce competition among cable and satellite companies has boosted pay-TV.
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The French have been among the most reluctant to allow competition against their state-owned monopoly, EDF, even though the company has been taking advantage of liberalisation in other countries to enter their markets.
The judge in the American government's antitrust trial of the software behemoth ruled not only that it used its monopoly power to stifle competition and innovation in the computer industry, but also that Microsoft's business practices during the 1990s harmed consumers.
But the challenge has always lain with the first half of Lincoln's phrase--that is, how to stoke that genius through a system that both rewards the inventor with a temporary business monopoly and protects the competition that lies at the heart of the free-market system.
The ruling goes on to detail the ways in which Microsoft used its monopoly power to bludgeon the competition.
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The local telephone monopoly will also be facing competition before long.
Michael Grisso of the Alliance for Rail Competition, a lobby group, says that monopoly power is the problem.
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Suppose a monopoly is enjoying high profits, deterring competition by the mere threat of predation.
Monopoly and the kind of robust platform competition between Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook are mutually exclusive portraits of reality.
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The hope is that once BAA's monopoly around London is broken up, competition will force improvements at all three airports.
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The first is where there is a monopoly of employers, where there is no competition for the labour.
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Later this year, the Competition Commission will almost certainly insist that BAA surrender its airport monopoly in the south-east by selling Gatwick and Stansted.
Another competition concern is that the Tote's pool-betting monopoly will remain.
And weaker identification with parties can be a plus: some of the worst-governed bits of Britain have suffered badly from a tribal instinct among voters that has stilted political competition and led a single party to think it had a monopoly on power.
Government can also grant monopoly status, barriers to entry and protection from foreign competition.
Either that, or its refusal to sell its infrastructure stems from a desire to continue as a lumbering, dinosaur-like monopoly, and to put off having to face real competition for as long as possible.
If the goal were to maximize auction revenue and profits then the right approach would be to bundle all our spectrum and sell it to one firm, which would be willing to pay an enormous price to have a monopoly in the lucrative market with no possible threat of competition.
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Telephone and cable TV services still belong to monopoly providers in most towns, but the airwaves are naturally conducive to competition.
But while SPH holds the monopoly in Singapore's newspaper market, it's finding that AsiaOne faces fierce competition from other portals operating there.
Although competition from fixed-odds bookies limits the Tote's market power, the Tote still has a monopoly over some types of bet.
Thus Telmex, the state telecoms monopoly, was privatised in 1990, but not regulated till years later, and made to face competition later still.
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