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> short of a government regulation or a monopoly, Phone companies used to be monopolies, in Europe they were owned by the government as a public service. But
by Frieren 2mo ago
> short of a government regulation or a monopoly,
Phone companies used to be monopolies, in Europe they were owned by the government as a public service. But when they become profitable politicians betrayed their citizens and sold them. Nowadays, phone companies are a source of scams, spam and everything wrong with big corporations. And all that profits are now private instead of helping to fund the country.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2mo agoOn this topic, phone lines are so ubiquitous that it is irresponsible for representative governments to continue to let private companies mess around with them. Doubly irresponsible to go from public to private after the increase in popularity.
- inigyou 2mo agoThat was in the 2000s. Phone lines are an anomaly now but cellphones are not. The phone number is more like an ICQ number than an identifier of a physical connection, but is still regulated like the latter.
- DANmode 2mo agoYou don’t get to tell these people you pay they can’t double-dip as telco shareholders!