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Re:Verizon, AT&T Customers Sue to Undo T-Mobile Merger, Sayi... by brewdad on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @11:19AM (#38178702)
You have the freedom to choose between 2 identical services and one inferior one. At least where I live, T-Mobile stops working if I head 10 miles west or north. There's even a dead zone half a mile from my home in the middle of a suburb of 100,000 people.

Free market has always been lip service in the US.

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Re:Verizon, AT&T Customers Sue to Undo T-Mobile Merger, Sayi... by coryrc on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @01:19PM (#38180648)
Infrastructure is a natural monopoly. Of course it isn't a free market, just like roads. I wish we had privatized roads, maybe we wouldn't be so car-dependent.
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Re:Verizon, AT&T Customers Sue to Undo T-Mobile Merger, Sayi... by matwood on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @01:20PM (#38180672)
VZW is the inferior one where I live, but your point stands.
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