[dj2stein9]

Except you don't typically hear that about public utilities. Have you ever heard someone argue that their sewers should be sold to private corporations to operate because that would be cheaper?

    Private enterprise can do it so much better! Capitalism!
    Why do my property taxes keep rising and my broadband
    isn't getting any faster?!?

But my cable internet bill already does go up every few months without any improvement to my bandwidth cap, or speed.

[mje__]

In South Africa we have a government-run telco monopoly. We also have some of the shittiest, most expensive internet in the world.

At least with private enterprise you can choose the least bad option.

[dbpatterson]

Well, not usually in the US. The big internet providers usually section off areas, and they don't compete. So we get the worst of both worlds - a private (ie, unaccountable) monopoly.