When The Government Picked Companies And Gave Them Monopoly Rights To Frequencies In San Francisco And Los Angeles And New York And Chicago, It Was Picking The Winners Of The Competition; It Wasn't Setting The Terms Of The Competition. - SearchQuotes

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When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.

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