His underlying thesis is that industry structure (unfortunately in communications all too often a monopoly or oligarchy) determines freedom of expression.
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More recently, safety, and economic and investment issues created by vertical separation, have caused huge problems on Britain's rail network and there is increasing disenchantment with the industry structure in place.
"I see no reason why fares should increase faster under the new system than they do under the present nationalised industry structure, " Transport Secretary John MacGregor told the House of Commons in February 1993.
And the industry structure has changed in a way.
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Oddly, the industry's structure closely resembles 1930s-era mass manufacturing.
The structure of industry in Japan has changed as Japanese companies have moved production to Europe, America and South-East Asia.
During the debate, chairman of the Press Complaints Commission Lord Hunt of Wirral said he was "optimistic" the media industry could deliver its own regulatory structure without the need for legislation and with "comprehensive sign-up" from across the industry by the middle of 2013.
"I understand why very few in the industry support changing the current structure, " Ms. Schapiro said.
In all three cases the growth of internet traffic and online shopping affected the structure of the industry, not just prices.
Part of the problem, too, is the structure of the industry, in which the public sector and regulation play a large part.
But the structure of the industry and the way it operates have largely been dictated by a web of government rules more appropriate to the 16th century than the 21st.
For example, under the industry's byzantine fare structure, it is sometimes cheaper for a traveler to purchase a ticket to a distant city but to leave the plane at an intermediate stopover point -- which is his actual destination.
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By micro-managing the structure of the wireless industry, the commission tasked with overseeing the communications industry risks making the wrong call.
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And to understand those tradeoffs, the FCC must think hard about what the ideal market structure of the wireless industry should look like.
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Samsung expects to keep its frontrunner status in the global memory semiconductor industry with competitive products and differentiated cost structure.
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Knight Ridder (nyse: KRI - news - people ) is more vulnerable to a hostile takeover than most media ventures in this age of industry consolidation because of its unique capital structure.
In their current form, European corporate states tend to be more informal than their predecessors, drawing on mutually supporting networks of labor, industry and government leaders without the explicit structure of Mussolini's cartels or Roosevelt's code authorities.
Pushed by a desire for short-term feedback, the difficulty of analyzing long term success and the structure of the money management industry, investors give more credence to short term results and information, leading them to overlook real long-term value.
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While Deutsche Bank didn't disclose the terms of the share sale, industry officials said the deal's structure would likely involve a small number of big institutional money managers picking up the shares at a small discount to the stock's current trading price.
Interface built the carpet industry's most oil-independent cost structure while cutting its greenhouse gas emissions 82%.
This structure is now collapsing as the industry's heavyweights move into each other's layers.
Consent forms for film and TV tend to follow a water-tight structure that is standard across the industry.
The main factor in the slow rate of change probably has had to do with the structure and culture of the electric industry.
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The SEC and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority must also create a regulatory structure allowing companies to "crowdfund, " or raise capital from hundreds of investors.
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