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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by lotsofpulp on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:21PM (#25364208)
And then it would eventually come back together. See ATT.

https://money.cnn.com/infographic/technology/att-merger-hist...

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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by mrkramer on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:36PM (#25364471)
"And then it would eventually come back together." That would be hilarious.
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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by katbyte on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:37PM (#25364490)
But are there not multiple phone companies now instead of just one?
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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by samfisher83 on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:35PM (#25365488)
They have all pretty much merged back into AT&T or Verizon. Those two companies together would be the original MA Bell.
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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by lotsofpulp on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:43PM (#25365612)
And Centurylink.
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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by aylmao on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @08:10PM (#25368173)
Duopolies are bad, but I'd say still better than monopolies.
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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by lotsofpulp on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:20PM (#25365214)
Yes, it was just a possibly funny observation that most of the entities created from the monopoly ended up back in an entity called ATT.
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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by lovecg on Thursday December 10, 2020 @12:18PM (#25375901)
Reminds me of Terminator 2.
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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by oblio on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:41PM (#25365585)
Even better, Standard Oil.
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