Sentences with phrase «monopoly on phone services»

Throughout its long history, AT&T has had many subsidiaries (including the Bell Telephone Company), a government sanctioned monopoly on phone services, and has been the largest phone service provider several times during the last century.

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My tenure at the company predated the ubiquitous adoption of the mobile phone, so the stodgy telco primarily focused on providing landline connectivity with poor customer and quality of service metrics which can be a common occurrence for monopoly - type industries.