I see your point - and i don't disagree, and my overall point is that mergers and all that aren't bad, but when you agree to effectively allow companies to M&A

I see your point - and i don't disagree, and my overall point is that mergers and all that aren't bad, but when you agree to effectively allow companies to M&A their way to a monopoly, it is imperative for industry safety that that monopoly needs to be policed and regulated heavily ESPECIALLY if it's a piece of critical social infrastructure whcih also happens to be a public company acting in the best interests of its stock performance above all else. Industry can't M&A its way to a monopoly and then use the power of the monopoly to say "we get to do whatever we want". Great power, great responsibility and all that.