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WalterBright • today at 12:07 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

So we must break up a monopoly because it delivers more value at a lower cost than its competitors?


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AnimalMuppet • today at 12:47 AM

No, bell-cot's point is that they are the same company that gets the profits from the payload. It's vertical integration (pun accidental, but not avoided). That gives them a massive financial advantage as a launch company. It makes it hard for anyone else to compete with them - if they have the capacity to handle all other customers' launches as well as their own.

Internet satellites... that does look like a monopoly, or at least effectively one.

sroussey • today at 1:30 AM

No, but the government could nationalize it and spin it out again.

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