However Bell was broken up in a consent decree that didn't have to do with its monopoly over the networks, not explicitly at least.
Bell was broken up because they owned Western Electric and used it to vertically integrate the telco stack for the entire country.
A hypothetical breakup of Alphabet could mirror the breakup of the Bell system, as Alphabet controls the data collection -> advertisement stack. Spin off Search + AdWords as an independent business, while services targeting data collection services that feed it (Chrome/Chromium, Android, GSuite, Google Home, etc).
Personally I could see a lot of consumer benefits.
Bell was broken up because they owned Western Electric and used it to vertically integrate the telco stack for the entire country.
A hypothetical breakup of Alphabet could mirror the breakup of the Bell system, as Alphabet controls the data collection -> advertisement stack. Spin off Search + AdWords as an independent business, while services targeting data collection services that feed it (Chrome/Chromium, Android, GSuite, Google Home, etc).
Personally I could see a lot of consumer benefits.