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for many years AT&T was a regulated monopoly, providing both local and long-distance telephone service - explain why long distance phone service was originally a natural monopoly, how did the growing number of satellites change the cost structure of the long distance phone service, why might it be efficient to have competition in long distance phone service and regulated monopolies in local phone service

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