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Re:The antitrust case against Google by chrisco255 on Thursday June 11, 2020 @07:56PM (#23494492)
We've got 5G on the way with the 3-way mobile mobile in the U.S. plus Space X's Starlink on the way: https://www.starlink.com/. All this will provide competition for cable companies big time.

As for payments, the Visa/MC/Amex hegemony will get challenged by crypto. Ethereum's scalability is rapidly approaching Visa scale and with stablecoins and DeFi skyrocketing in popularity, it's going to be an interesting thing to watch.

Re:The antitrust case against Google by modeless on Thursday June 11, 2020 @08:07PM (#23494563)
Starlink is not competition for cable companies, unfortunately. Any area dense enough for cable is too dense for Starlink. There may be more competition in wireless carriers than wired ISPs, but that's not saying much. It's still not nearly the competitive market it should be especially with even more consolidation happening recently.