Comment Re:When Egypt or Libya does it, it's bad, of cours (Score 1) 513
What about in this election where no one party controls the whole of Congress?
You're forgetting that the telecommunications industry is an economy of scale. It's cheaper for customers to have a monopoly as long as the company is not charging excessive fees. Remember the Telecom act of 96 that opened up the market to competition? It was still too expensive for many small firms to lease the lines so now we're back to RBOCs.
A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.