Correct but if you check them most of the stock is owned (or used to
be) by some quasi government entity.
Remember Savin? Majority owned by the province of Ontario (or was at
one time) Bell Canada has an offer on the table to be bought by a
Canadian Teachers pension group (Or another government pension group.)
Many foreign countries see no problem mixing public with private at all.
The competing telecoms do so only with the governments approval and
also cooperation.
Now understand I am not saying it is wrong it is the way they do it
over there. Socialism is not evil. Capitalism is not evil. It is
the way it gets used and manipulated that causes the problems. :-)
Stewart
At 03:40 PM 7/11/2007, you wrote:
That may have been true years ago, but no longer. BT, Deutsche Telekom,
France Telecom, Telecom Italia, Telekom Austria are all stock companies.
Most European countries have dozens of competing telecom companies.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
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