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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: My Dinner With Marc Andreessen
Date: 9 Jul 2024 00:18:31 -0000
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>On Sat, 6 Jul 2024 12:28:05 +0200, D wrote:
>
>> Except that neither europe nor the US are free markets, so neither can
>> be used as an example.
>
>The simple fact is that mobile phones took off in lots of countries, 
>reaching over 100% penetration in several of them, while the US continued 
>to lag behind. What was different? Those other countries used the 
>Government-mandated GSM standard, while the US just “let the market 
>decide”.

It's true that the cellphone companies in the US lobbied congress for a
number of regulations that stifled competition and stifled the growth
of the industry, such as the Electronic Communication Privacy Act of 1986
which remains a stumbling block for all kinds of things.
--scott

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