The phone companies spent decades extending internet access across the US, first to homes and then to mobile devices, only to be stuck collecting relatively small service fees while Google and Amazon built lucrative online empires.
Now that a surge of American cars are getting their own internet connections, Verizon Communications Inc and AT&T Inc don’t want to be relegated to mere pipe providers yet again.
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