"confusopoly" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1999, David Marshall, “ADSL for 200 quid a month?”, in alt.dur.general (Usenet):",
          "text": "Be aware that BT have just cut some prices, *and* introduced a new tariff that you can buy your way onto. Beware however that it's an even bigger confusopoly than it was before.",
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          "ref": "2001, Herbert Jack Rotfeld, Adventures in Misplaced Marketing:",
          "text": "Instead of the power of monopoly, consumers lose to the power of confusopoly.",
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          "ref": "2003, Stevie D, “Regulating privatised companies (rail versus telecom, water, electricity, gas)”, in uk.railway (Usenet):",
          "text": "One of the main reasons to have competition is that it leads to lower prices. So now we have a confusopoly where innumerable providers are all offering us special deals but actual prices are being kept artificially high.",
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