This means that customers have limited choices, which gives each service provider a near monopoly power.
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Antitrust law is allegedly to prevent firms from exercising monopoly power to abuse customers.
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Right-to-work laws would not curb that monopoly power, he said, and therefore could not be justified.
The document first assesses the implications for Market Definition and Monopoly Power of these competitive realities.
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Michael Grisso of the Alliance for Rail Competition, a lobby group, says that monopoly power is the problem.
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The recent Senate hearing addressed claims that Google uses monopoly power over Internet search to disadvantage its competitors.
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Mr. Jobs drove hard bargains and used monopoly power to shut out collaborators.
The ruling goes on to detail the ways in which Microsoft used its monopoly power to bludgeon the competition.
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Contrast this with the view taken by most antitrust activists: network effects entrench standards, thereby conferring durable monopoly power.
It has been less successful in reducing the monopoly power of those firms.
"One gets the impression that they believe they've done nothing wrong, that they have no monopoly power, " Mr Lande said.
Instead the activity that goes by the name antitrust is itself coercive monopoly power of the most sweeping nature possible.
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John Markoff from the NY Times pins them on whether Microsoft could use Vista and monopoly power to knock them out.
If network effects did in fact assure monopoly power, the Microsoft monopoly in the operating-systems market would not have been illegal.
If it is, then any attempt to actually exploit that monopoly power will lead to the monopoly being contested and thus disappearing.
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The only thing which is illegal is the abuse of monopoly power.
Many of these involve monopoly power, public and private, political and economic.
Is this just a list of companies that have created monopoly power?
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To fend off Amazon's potential monopoly power, Apple and publishers might have manufactured their own monopoly mojo and forced Amazon into their world.
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Rockefeller's Standard Oil Co. had abused its monopoly power to keep others from competing and ordered the company to divide into 34 separate companies.
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This applications barrier to entry gives Microsoft its enduring monopoly power.
In both cases, the government asserts that, to the companies, competing on merit seemed no longer to be enough: monopoly power was abused to maintain market dominance.
One doesn't want to give too much monopoly power to private suppliers of water, so that they can then use that power to lobby government for special favours.
Also Monday, the monopoly power company, Korea Electric Power Corp.
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In addition, it will prevent the election of unions where monopoly power (and the management conflict that comes with it) is not the goal, but rather worker voice is.
The two big labor battles currently grabbing the spotlight may seem very different but are actually about the same thing: who reaps the benefits of monopoly power, employers or employees?
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Investing in utility stocks over the past three years has been a winning proposition, but not necessarily because of the traditionally fat yields you could find among monopoly power providers.
He argued that the proper approach was to use antitrust enforcement to combat the monopoly power of some unions, which in his opinion was what gave rise to closed shops.
That move left the Times supremely well positioned for the coming of the internet, which wiped out the geographic limitations that allowed metro papers to enjoy near-monopoly power within their home markets.
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