Not only does telecoms traffic grow roughly twice as fast in competitive markets as in monopoly markets, but the benefits flow to all corners of the economy in the form of new technology, innovative services, lower distribution costs and much lower average tariffs.
The solution, Richman says, is to transform what was formerly a state monopoly into a competitive market.
If one technology does one aspect of broadband service better than another, like speed, that technology must be a monopoly not a competitive broadband service.
The document first assesses the implications for Market Definition and Monopoly Power of these competitive realities.
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"I guess we care because, why would you grant a monopoly to companies that are competitive and who say by their own admission that they're not failing...?" he asked.
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Broadcasters have lost their historic monopoly on music transmission, and they now exist in a more competitive environment.
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Bundling a monopoly product with one that is competitively provided may result in the competitive market being distorted.
"No monopoly company that I knew of had ever gone to a fully competitive environment and prospered, " he says.
Mexico's new government is negotiating with rival political parties to use the oil industry and state monopoly Pemex to a different end: cheaper energy for a more competitive economy.
By retarding the information-technology industry, they argue, Telkom's monopoly makes South African banks, retailers and almost every other business less competitive.
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"A key problem is that the department has been unable to create a competitive market for medical assessment providers, leaving Atos in the position of being a near monopoly supplier, " she said.
This essentially is the reasoning behind Judge Jackson's ruling: that Windows should not be the means by which Microsoft establishes a corresponding monopoly in browsers which, in turn, enables it to limit the potential competitive threat to Windows from the new Java programming language.
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