People talk about regulating telecom like the power company, but the trend over the last 30 years has been to deregulate the power companies as much as possible

People talk about regulating telecom like the power company, but the trend over the last 30 years has been to deregulate the power companies as much as possible. And it's not like anything has happened since then that has made people rethink power company deregulation, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis