Why cellphone service is so expensive in America.

[Oerdin]

The short answer is lack of competition. We've stopped enforcing anti-trust laws because of regulatory capture (where the companies who are supposed to be regulated use money and political donations to make sure their regulators are compromised or are unable to effectively regulate) and so a few large companies have either bought up or driven out of business all their competitors. They also monopolize all the available bandwidth, even bandwidth they don't even use, just to make sure no new competitor is able to enter the market.

 

[Admin.]

I don't understand, I thought Trump was going to make everything great again?

 

[Frood]

I don't understand, I thought Trump was going to make everything great again?

He can't change water into wine or your stub into a functional penis...

 

[Admin.]

I don't understand, I thought Trump was going to make everything great again?

He can't change water into wine or your stub into a functional penis...

I am uncomfortable with you thinking about my Python of love, NTTAWWI.

 

[Lokmar]

I don't understand, I thought Trump was going to make everything great again?

He did, faggit. Now that the biden coup has taken place, expect shit sammie just like it was under jug eared president reggin!

 

[Frood]

I don't understand, I thought Trump was going to make everything great again?

He can't change water into wine or your stub into a functional penis...

I am uncomfortable with you thinking about my Python of love, NTTAWWI.

I never mentioned your boyfriend...

 

[Admin.]

I don't understand, I thought Trump was going to make everything great again?

He did, faggit. Now that the biden coup has taken place, expect shit sammie just like it was under jug eared president reggin!

I do enjoy a good dialect story, but yours are more incomprehensible than most.

 

[Lokmar]

I do enjoy a good dialect story, but yours are more incomprehensible than most.

Lemme dumb it down for ya: the biden presidency is illegitimate. PWN3D!

 

[Admin.]

I do enjoy a good dialect story, but yours are more incomprehensible than most.

Lemme dumb it down for ya: the biden presidency is illegitimate. PWN3D!

You must be very verklempt over that.

 

[Lokmar]

I do enjoy a good dialect story, but yours are more incomprehensible than most.

Lemme dumb it down for ya: the biden presidency is illegitimate. PWN3D!

You must be very verklempt over that.

Sure thing, faggit.

 

[LotusBud]

The short answer is lack of competition. We've stopped enforcing anti-trust laws because of regulatory capture (where the companies who are supposed to be regulated use money and political donations to make sure their regulators are compromised or are unable to effectively regulate) and so a few large companies have either bought up or driven out of business all their competitors. They also monopolize all the available bandwidth, even bandwidth they don't even use, just to make sure no new competitor is able to enter the market.

Yet another reason to get money out of politics. Political donations to political candidates and reps are ruining the country.

I pay 25 bucks for my phone here, everything unlimited, and our fiber optic cable, with TV, is 35 bucks.

 

[Oerdin]

part of it is Europeans use less than half the data Americans do but much of it does come down to lack of competition.

 

[Lokmar]

I wonder how much is from giving away service for free.