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Government steps in as the invisible hand fails

It's time to confront the myth of free enterprise

REX SMITH
Apr 24, 2021
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Would communication industry innovation have been as fast if Ma Bell hadn’t been challenged?
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There were no dials, no buttons, and certainly nothing to look at on the sturdy black phones in the little Midwestern city where I was born. If you lifted the receiver, a woman would politely ask, “Number please?” She worked f…

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