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But are there not multiple phone companies now instead of just one?

They have all pretty much merged back into AT&T or Verizon. Those two companies together would be the original MA Bell.

And Centurylink.

Duopolies are bad, but I'd say still better than monopolies.

Yes, it was just a possibly funny observation that most of the entities created from the monopoly ended up back in an entity called ATT.