The Telecom Act of 1996 envisioned that competition would substitute for regulation. Today, "competition" is being used as a catch-all phrase to mean anything that will slow the demise of the incumbent telephone companies. In a particularly Orwellian incarnation, incumbents say that more mergers (industry consolidation) will increase competition.

submitted by David S. Isenberg

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