In many areas, Cogeco maintains a de facto regional monopoly on cable internet service.

In effect, the Government may be helping to establish regional monopolies, and that worries some officials.

The purpose of the checklist was to regulate, not punish, regional monopolies.

All were persuaded that direct connection to a competing line would endanger their regional monopolies.

Gould built a large empire with small lines in the Southwest, integrating them into a regional monopoly.

IN any business, a regional monopoly can be a very profitable thing.

By 1855, the many original small firms had coalesced into six large companies, each having a regional monopoly in one area of France.

At that time, regional monopolies dominated the Quebec electricity market.

The three proposals are: *Creating national or regional monopolies.

The reason given for regional monopolies and concentration of power in regions with a small population base is rather lame.