Similarly, the Cuban government, also Communist and anti-competition, recently made an announcement that showed how the lack of competition influences life. They will now allow color televisions to be sold in the nation. Previously all TVs had been black and white only. Of course, there are only two or three stations to be received, and they're also government controlled. American competition provided superior television to this country several decades ago.
Some people believe monopolies are always illegal in the United States.
This isn't so. Sometimes monopolies occur in a place where nobody has yet decided to compete with an existing seller, such as in a small town with only one grocery store. This is perfectly okay under our laws. Another common kind of monopoly happens for technological reason. Sometimes it is cheaper for one company to produce a product in large amounts than to have several smaller companies dividing the production.