Either it is lack of training, lack of proper screening when hiring, lack of management or possibly lack of interest on the part of the telephone company, which does have a Government-blessed monopoly.

No corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital of another corporation engaged also in commerce, where the effect of such acquisition may be to substantially lessen competition between the corporation whose stock is so acquired and the corporation making the acquisition, or to restrain such commerce in any section or community, or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce.

It is the concern of the Department of State that the American people are safe and secure -- defense is not a monopoly concern of the Department of Defense.

It is interesting to note how many of the plants on Massachusetts' Route 128 draw most of their income either from the government in non-competitive cost-plus arrangements, or from the exploitation of patents which grant at least a partial monopoly.

The tortured reasoning that unions use to deny their ambition to exercise monopoly power over the supply and price of labor is one of the things that create a legal profession.

This is not a project for regaining the ground for limited war, by creating a monopoly in one power of the world's arsenal of unlimited weapons.

" Capitalism ," as anarcho-capitalists employ the term, is not to be confused with state monopoly capitalism, crony capitalism, corporatism, or contemporary mixed economies, wherein market incentives and disincentives may be altered by state action.

According to one analyst, Armenia's economic system is anticompetitive due to the structure of the economy being a type of " monopoly or oligopoly ".

His theological works argued that religious experience is a fundamentally human impulse, not just a Jewish one, and that no religious community could claim a monopoly on religious truth.

The Ministry of Telecommunications controls all telecommunications originating within the country through its carrier unitary enterprise, Beltelecom, which is controlled as a monopoly.

Postal service in Belgium is in many cases performed by Belgian Post Group, a semi-privat public company which has as a monopoly on letters until 50g weight.

Air Burkina, which began in 1967, is government-run and has a monopoly on domestic service.

The Bank is one of eight banks authorised to issue banknotes in the United Kingdom, but has a monopoly on the issue of banknotes in England and Wales and regulates the issue of banknotes by commercial banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Forms of imperfect competition include: monopoly ( in which there is only one seller of a good ), duopoly ( in which there are only two sellers of a good ), oligopoly ( in which there are few sellers of a good ), monopolistic competition ( in which there are many sellers producing highly differentiated goods ), monopsony ( in which there is only one buyer of a good ), and oligopsony ( in which there are few buyers of a good ).

Natural monopoly, or the overlapping concepts of " practical " and " technical " monopoly, is an extreme case of failure of competition as a restraint on producers.

; Telephone system: large system ; underwent extensive upgrading during 1990s and is reasonably modern ; Telecom Egypt, the landline monopoly, has been increasing service availability and in 2006 fixed-line density stood at 14 per 100 persons ; as of 2007 there were three mobile-cellular networks and service is expanding rapidly

Telecommunications in Ethiopia is currently a monopoly in the control of Ethio Telecom, formerly the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation ( ETC ); all telephone service and internet access requires Ethio Telecom to be involved.

Per Unckel, governor of Stockholm and former Minister of Education, has promoted the system, saying " Education is so important that you can ’ t just leave it to one producer, because we know from monopoly systems that they do not fulfill all wishes.

OTE, the former state monopoly, is the main player in fixed-line telephony.

This type of monopoly is not uncommon in Greenland.

This creates economic inefficiency as long as the monopoly is held.

A reporter restricted to the competing propaganda statements of both sides in a major labor dispute, for instance, is unable to tell his readers half of what he knows about the causes of the dispute.

One species is restricted to statements which are neither explicit nor precise regarding a particular person, place, time or thing.

Other than this very significant result, most of the information now available about the radio emission of the planets is restricted to the intensity of the radiation.

In some ( the Ewe type mentioned above ) interaction of tone and intonation is restricted to the ends of intonation spans.

Once more the fallacious equation is advanced to argue that since business is restricted under the anti-monopoly laws, there must be a corresponding restriction against labor unions: the law must treat everybody equally.

Now we might have restricted the use of uranium bombs by controlling the sources of uranium because it is found in only a few places in the world.

During this time most of what is known as ethnologie was restricted to museums, such as the Musée de l ' Homme founded by Paul Rivet, and anthropology had a close relationship with studies of folklore.

The term algae is now restricted to eukaryotic organisms.

In such a proceeding, all issues and evidence may be developed newly, as though never heard before, and one is not restricted to the evidence heard in the lower proceeding.

Its usage is mostly restricted to engravings on stone and jewelry, although inscriptions have also been found on bone and wood.

Computers ( and computors ), models of computation: A computer ( or human " computor ") is a restricted type of machine, a " discrete deterministic mechanical device " that blindly follows its instructions.

The assumption that Altaic is a valid family, but only consists of Japonic, Korean and Tungusic, appears to be restricted to Unger ( 1990 ).

The restricted principle " Every partially ordered set has a maximal totally ordered subset " is also equivalent to AC over ZF.

Irrigated agriculture is restricted to the areas surrounding rivers and wherever sufficient underground water is available.

The use of telephone lines is restricted only to " urgent " calls, leaving short telegrams as the only means of communicating with friends or family outside the town.

The use of terms and titles, including derivatives such as Architectural Designer, and the representation of oneself as an architect is restricted to licensed individuals by law.

The usage of Stokoe's system is currently restricted to academic circles.

Pyrrolysine trait is restricted to several microbes, and only one organism has both Pyl and Sec.

Use of the term to describe writers, for example, is certainly valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism.

It is a humorous political critique, aimed squarely at the then ruling party Partido Revolucionario Institucional ( PRI ) and its paramilitary caciques, at a time when freedom of speech in politics was highly restricted.

Strictly speaking, the AES standard is a variant of Rijndael where the block size is restricted to 128 bits.

The gathering of ormers is now restricted to a number of ' ormering tides ', from January 1 to April 30, which occur on the full or new moon and two days following.