The Monopolies and Mergers Commission found they were creating a "complex monopoly", damaging the interests of publicans and customers.

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However the Commission did not rule out the possibility that a complex monopoly situations may exist within the sector, in favour of electrical goods retailers who offer extended warranties at the point of sale.

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But conservatism has become such a large and sprawling complex of ideas that no one has a monopoly on the term anymore.

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In May, the FCC leadership floated the idea of deeming complex and dynamic Internet services equivalent to old-fashioned monopoly phone services, thereby triggering price-and-terms regulations that originated in the 1880s.

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However, the advantages for consumers of a single operating standard in the complex computer-software market is such that nobody seriously suggests that Microsoft's monopoly should be broken up.

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