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...Telstra's power stems from its stranglehold on the "last mile" of copper wiring to Australian homes, over which most telephone and Internet services are delivered and which rivals must pay to access. By building its own FTTH network, the government will bypass the copper and kick off a new era of competition where Telstra is an equal player on an open-access network. "This will totally change the telco industry and Telstra," says Budde. "Think if the road system was owned by one company that said 'you have to drive these cars.' Without open access to the roads there...
...socialism. But when the country's economic czars began to attract multinational companies like Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Matsushita to locate their manufacturing facilities in Singapore in the 1960s, they tacitly agreed to keep wages for blue-collar workers low by de-fanging the unions that once had a stranglehold over the labor force. As a cargo handler, for instance, Krishnan made just $1,000 a month...
...rooted in the media world of 1949, when lawmakers became concerned that by virtue of their near-stranglehold on nationwide TV broadcasting, the three main television networks - NBC, ABC and CBS - could misuse their broadcast licenses to set a biased public agenda. The Fairness Doctrine, which mandated that broadcast networks devote time to contrasting views on issues of public importance, was meant to level the playing field. Congress backed the policy in 1954, and by the 1970s the FCC called the doctrine the "single most important requirement of operation in the public interest - the sine qua non for grant...
...these days, so it's jarring not to be able to buy concert tickets straight from individual venues or, for that matter, the bands themselves. Plus, it annoys fans that Ticketmaster - with its exclusive agreements with venues and 2008 acquisition of a company that manages artists - has such a stranglehold on the industry. (To be fair, not all of the fees tacked on to ticket prices are collected by Ticketmaster, but the company's financial arrangements with venues facilitate many of the charges...
PAUL BLART: MALL COP breaks dog-movie stranglehold on American box office...