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Re:T-Mobile to share customers' data with advertisers unless... by skynet-9000 on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @08:29PM (#26406729)
who owns any of those companies? the shareholders. are they treated any better?

the issue is the spectrum auctions.. a new carrier can't even get off the ground, even if they were willing to fight through the morass of local and competing regulations to put up towers etc.

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Re:T-Mobile to share customers' data with advertisers unless... by yellowapple on Thursday March 18, 2021 @03:28PM (#26506520)
> who owns any of those companies? the shareholders. are they treated any better?

They don't have to be, because shareholders and customers are two separate groups when it comes to traditional corporations. And even where they intersect, if dividends and growing stock prices outweigh any personal harm done to themselves as customers, they're going to take the money, every time.

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