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I'm not sure how many readers here remember pre-divesture AT&T. The real AT&T. That provided the most reliable phone service, built the best telecom equipment and supported the most important research lab in the world....Bell Labs. Arguably Bell Labs is responsible for almost every innovation that makes up the digital world we live in today. All their discoveries and innovation were were part of the public domain and this was done in exchange for allowing AT&T to have a monopoly on telecom services. An arrangement that was ruined by the US Congress. And now the anything but brilliant elected officials that destroyed Bell Labs, tried to destroy Microsoft, want to destroy our most globally competitive companies. This is not just the usual total incompetence and corruption, its economic suicide, its the Fall of the Roman Empire Part 2 as if that wasn't already happening fast enough. If you want to talk monopolies why is no one mentioning the monopoly on power of the DNC and RNC? If you want to talk about illegal activities, misuse of personal data and surveillance, I'll leave you with one name....Edward Snowden.....and you can decide for yourself where the real abuse is coming from.