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AWS needs to be broken up way more than Ma Bell ever did. We need to have open protocols developed so that there can be actual competition.
There is actual competition though, from Google and Microsoft at a minimum.
3-5 companies in a sector is an oligopoly, which acts nearly the same as a monopoly. This is not "actual competition".
All of these companies cornered their own markets, and now they own the backbone of the internet.
If we broke up all of them and required open standards and interoperability then other companies could innovate.
I’m not saying it’s good, but it’s not Ma Bell.
How much of the economy in the 60s was telecommunications vs how much of the economy today relies on the internet?
3 companies is not competition, 3 companies is collusion.