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AT&T managed to keep the regulators at bay by convincing them that the phone network was a “natural monopoly” and a necessary one. Analog phone circuits were simply too complicated to be run by a hodgepodge of competing firms; if Americans wanted to have a reliable phone network, it needed to be run by a single company.
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
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