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by emteycz
1598 days ago
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What I meant was that it was "all over Europe" only because a half of it was communist, not that only communist states had public telecoms and/or the entire Europe was communist. I'm very sure at least the eastern part would have been mostly private-run if it wasn't taken over by the communists. |
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What do you base that on? Pretty much every western European country had state owned telcos. As far as I am aware, prior to the 90s, private telcos seem to the exception rather than the rule across the world. It seems mainly to be a specifically north American thing to have private telcos prior to that. Looking at the countries surrounding the former soviet states going from north to south:
Finland (originally a cooperative now owned by Norwegian state telco): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_Oyj
Sweden (originally state-owned): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televerket_(Sweden)
Germany (originally state-owned): link above
Austria (originally state-owned): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A1_Telekom_Austria_Group
Italy (originally state-owned): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruppo_TIM
Turkey (originally state-owned): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BCrk_Telekom
Looking east:
Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Telegraph_and_Telephone
Malaysia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telekom_Malaysia
South Korea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KT_Corporation
Australia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstra
India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat_Sanchar_Nigam_Limited#H...
Indonesia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telkom_Indonesia#Early_years
And a couple of others:
Switzerland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swisscom
South Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telkom_(South_Africa)
Brazil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telebr%C3%A1s
I mean that's pretty much every major economy on the planet (with north America being the exception).