• robolemmy@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    Never forget that the baby bells slowly reassembled themselves. They’re not a single company but they’re down to 3 or 4 now

    • Bob Robertson IX@lemmy.world
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      30 days ago

      Which is exactly where it should be… having regional phone companies sucked. Having 1 phone company sucked. Having 3-4 is the least sucky, but we have real competition.

      Before tearing apart Google and Amazon, I’df much prefer we have 3-4 choices for internet providers (unless we can turn them into utilities, then we should do that).