oligopoly
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Ever since T-Mobile and Sprint merged in 2020, the U.S. wireless-communications market has operated as a comfortable oligopoly.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
Hard drives capture about 80% of cloud storage, and are made by a disciplined oligopoly.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
"The problem with this industry is that the supply chain is an oligopoly and sometimes even a duopoly."
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
Instead, we have an oligopoly of dominant banks that issue them: JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, American Express, Citigroup and Capital One, which together account for about 70% of all transactions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026
OTTAWA—The Bank of Canada’s No. 2 official endorsed a competition shakeup in the highly concentrated financial-services industry, saying the country’s banking sector is an oligopoly and changes could help lift Canada’s prolonged productivity slump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
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