This is very much in line with my own thinking. Wireless (cellular/radio/tv/...) affords some competition. Wired (power/water/sewage/copper/fiber) affords lit

This is very much in line with my own thinking. Wireless (cellular/radio/tv/...) affords some competition. Wired (power/water/sewage/copper/fiber) affords little last-mile competition it seems like. Unless municipalities made a real effort to make adding wire a simple proposition which does appear to happen in some places (Scandinavia springs to mind for some reason). These are real issues that keep cropping up and it would be nice to do some actual social and economic simulations and historical analysis to see which models benefit whom. The classic blunder in my neck of the woods was the British Rail privatization fiasco. Network Rail owned the tracks which suddenly ceased seeing any innovation and funding (so no high-speed-rail like practically everywhere else on the European continent). Train providers get their own non-overlapping corridors just like cable providers in the USA. Don't know if there is a limit to the train provider's size though. Same happened with water. Please correct me if I am wrong or painting this in too negative a light.