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Another issue has to do with rights of way. In the physical world, the government is the one with the power to allow you to trench up streets for your cabling or use a particular radio frequency, so they have lots of leverage over you. You can't move your Chicago telephone exchange to Philly, either, so historically governments driven hard bargains (not these days for reasons I'll touch on). Unsurprisingly, then, graft and logrolling have long been rampant in the telecom business. 9/