Government regulation helps create a fairer marketplace in which more companies can compete?

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Government regulation helps create a fairer marketplace in which more companies can compete

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Reasons To Disagree Government regulations tend to close down competition rather than increasing it by increasing costs. 25 March 2006 All gummint reg's do is tilt the playing field, favour the inefficient, create anomalies and create a need for more reg's - a vicious circle which ends in chaos. 20 May 2006 A fairer marketplace is achieved by the right to trade voluntarily without any impediment. 7 June 2008 Government regulation only decides which companies can compete 27 August 2012

Reasons To Agree Local loop unbundling and broadband 6 August 2006 It should help. But it doesn't always. Could do better. 10 October 2010

Reasons for Remain Neutral

The purpose of government regulation is to create a fair marketplace. It does not necessarily follow that there will be more companies competing. Who still has a stranglehold on the telecommunications market?

A balance is required - too many monopolies are bad for the consumer; too many regulations are bed for the consumer.

governments usually over regulate & under facilitate - causing regulation to become a burden, rather than an accelerant

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