Some say profitable hospitals may be using local monopoly to overcharge insurers and patients.
Because water supply is a natural local monopoly, any privatisation requires a strong and permanent public regulator.
The knock on these facilities is that they may be abusing a local monopoly to overcharge insurers and patients.
But each cable firm has a local monopoly.
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The local telephone monopoly will also be facing competition before long.
However, most cable companies do not compete with each other, since they hold monopoly local franchises.
NTT'S answer is to pay for forays abroad by exploiting its remaining near-monopoly in local telephone traffic in Japan.
NTT, with bags of cash, a great brand name and a virtual monopoly on local calls, offering customers a one-stop shop.
Just as local governments hold a monopoly over the supply of rights of way, so the Fed holds a monopoly of the supply of currency.
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Not because they necessarily want to run ACOs, but because they want to consolidate local physicians to secure monopoly-like positions that give them bargaining power.
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Lula and his party not only stood for social reform but claimed, from their experience in local administration, a monopoly on clean government in Brazil.
But at the same time Congress created a disincentive by preserving the telcos' monopoly on local phone service, giving them little reason to dive into new and expensive ventures.
One firm has established a near-monopoly of local television.
Private doctors complained of a breakdown in the supply of the JE vaccine, the monopoly of a local trading company.
Then came the engineers of the state telephone company, angry at government plans to end its monopoly of non-local calls.
Local officials were heavily involved in bringing Monopoly to the sprawling metropolis of some 15 million people.
Yale University researcher Anthony Leiserowitz, who worked on the poll, said he was not surprised local tea party supporters might challenge a monopoly.
But shortly afterwards, China's central bank established a domestic competitor, China UnionPay, and gave it a de facto monopoly over the handling of local-currency payments between merchants and banks.
In February, EchoStar tried to allay fears about its pending monopoly by pledging to carry local channels in every local television market in the U.S.--if the merger was approved, that is.
In telecom, Doede cites Kazakhtelecom, which is listed on the local exchange and in Berlin and holds a monopoly position on the fixed and mobile network in Kazakhstan.
The coal monopoly needs to be broken up and local distribution firms privatised.
These cases also cover the gamut of federal agencies and departments, along with a few examples on the state and local level, showing that no segment of our government holds a monopoly on failure on this issue.
Svyazinvest was originally conceived both as a holding company for the state's interests in 86 local telephone firms across Russia and as a competitor for Rostelecom, a state-run near-monopoly in long-distance and international telephony.
Blending of local and imported coal would have increased costs for power producers which source the fuel from the state-run monopoly supplier.
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