Innovation (Score 1)

I remember, prior to the breakup of AT&T, how it cost extra to have a touch-tone phone, there were only 2 long-distance service providers (AT&T and MCI) and there were extra charges for using a modem on a private phone line. After the breakup, all of a sudden, companies started coming out with new technology!! Now, we have 56k modems, instead of 1200bps, we have a multiplicity of long distance providers, and a whole plethora of technology that never would have come about, if there had not been competition to AT&T. What is going to happen, if competition is allowed in the software industry??? Will we suddenly get better browsers, or better word processors?? Maybe we could even get a Windoze compatible OS that does NOT crash every other day?? Who knows....but it WILL be interesting to find out!!!