On: America’s Monopoly Crisis Hits the Military

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>Americans invented the telephone business and until recently dominated production and research. But in the last 20 years, every single American producer of key telecommunication equipment sectors is gone.

So qualcomm doesn't exist?

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Qualcomm is largely modems. The actual base stations with which the modems communicate are not made by them to my knowledge. Nor the fiber optic infrastructure, switches, etc. Their statement is accurate. You can't build an all-American telecomm network today.