So your take was that it simply was in response to the bureaucracy and the larger government having policies that required competition. And in this case, all of these policies and requirements bogged down the system, reducing the ability of a company that seemed to be on the leading edge of a new technology to.... There was just an inability for government to respond, possibly because of accountability rules, or any number of such requirements.
On April 28th, 2009. See this statement in context.