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Re:After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat by baddox on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @12:51PM (#16475952)
I think the usual argument is that utility companies tend to be natural monopolies due to the extremely high cost (relative to the size of the market) of installing infrastructure to every single building.
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Re:After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat by notriddle on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @04:41PM (#16478220)
In contrast, businesses can buy programming talent from anywhere in the world that gets Internet access. It's inevitably going to be competitive.
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