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Ed Markey: It was all bottled up, just bottled up, so that a couple of companies, you know, controlled everything.

On the recordJune 4, 2014
It was all bottled up, just bottled up, so that a couple of companies, you know, controlled everything.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey discusses the monopolistic control over telecommunications that stifled competition.

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