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Comcast has a monopoly because regulations and high costs of infrastructure make it difficult for competitors to emerge. Somehow you think they deregulation of the taxi industry will recreate this situation. Cost of a car and the regulations gone? You've already called a uber monopoly?

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Uber has taken $1.5 billion in funding, which they're using to lock up as many drivers as they can to create those sorts of barriers to entry. No one wants to use competing apps with a small handful of drivers - they want the one with a car right around the corner.

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