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Then how can you consider these companies to be truly private?

• nknighthb 13y ago
  I don't. Neither, I'd wager, does djur, who you initially replied to. You should read his other posts in this thread. He and I are both speaking of the practical problems of the mentality that governments shouldn't be involved at all, not arguing that telecom monopolies are a good thing. You can't have a practical system of utilities of any sort without government involvement. That doesn't mean you have to have government-granted monopolies to nominally private companies. There are other options, like having the core utilities (e.g. fiber) be a public utility to begin with.