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RE: Analysing Net Neutrality: Good Riddance

in #economics7 years ago

We shouldn’t confuse “ISP” with the “Telcos”. You can expect these Tier 1 telcos to milk their ISP business to subsidize their ailing telco operation. We can expect to see accelerating vertical integration and emergence of new oligopolies.

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An oligopoly could expand, but a new one would mean that the current oligopoly/monopolistic structure would have to fail. If they do fail, a new oligopoly structure will be welcomed by most for a while. That would show that the market is healthy since business entities can die and be replaced.

Oligopolies don’t expand; they stagnate.

Only in the long term. While they eat up competition they expand. An oligopoly begins as the biggest market share and can eventually be almost all the market share.