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		DougWebb on April 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: EU votes net neutrality into law, abolishes mobile... Being pessimistic... as the European Telecoms becomes "truly European", the carriers will probably start merging. Eventually you'll wind up where we are in the US, with a couple of huge carriers, a moderately sized carrier, and some small carriers that barely count. And then they'll start colluding, and providing poor service because they don't have to compete anymore. Welcome to the club.

lmm on April 3, 2014 | [–]

The EU can and will act to block mergers it considers to be anticompetitive.

silon5 on April 3, 2014 | [–]

It's about time to progressively tax (VAT, not profit) companies in "monopoly" markets.

fosap on April 3, 2014 | [–]

In germany companies in monopoly markets (e.g. power transmission) have a fixed profit margin (I think 10%).

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