Not necessarily. If one company opens a channel to everybody then everyone is connected to one another through one big routing node. Job done. No need for individual channels between Alice and Carol if Bob is in the middle with a channel to both (and everyone else).
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Not necessarily. If one company opens a channel to everybody then everyone is connected to one another through one big routing node. Job done. No need for individual channels between Alice and Carol if Bob is in the middle with a channel to both (and everyone else).