(Yesterday, 11:26 am)DeltaMan wrote Before giving out cash to operators to bridge the gap between artificial cost and supply, maybe she'll use a bit of thought and get an agreement with them not make any major service changes before franchising as a condition of them getting the cash!
I doubt her or NECA are even capable of thinking of that!
The only way she can 'manipulate' the current commercial network, to either improve or maintain it, is by throwing money at operators now.
That's the unfortunate reality of what currently still is a commercial market.
Imposing sanctions based on future opportunities is not possible, both practically and mostly likely, legally.