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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: My Dinner With Marc Andreessen
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 22:32:13 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 08:57:24 -0700, Dave Yeo wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Jul 2024, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
> 
> It is a good example of capitalism in action, using capital to acquire
> more capital, in this case by buying government.

Which they did very well, to their own benefit, but not to that of their 
customers who were supposed to be paying for all of this.

The Europeans managed to create a much more competitive free market.