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Americans Hate ISPs Almost As Much As They Hate Gas Stations, Survey Finds (www.extremetech.com)
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

It's worse than collusion. The break up of AT&T resulted in a legal construction of Franchise Agreements that legally granted regional monopolies in all major population centers in the country in a deliberate bid to avoid Sherman antitrust rules. It's not merely collusion, you literally cannot compete by law.