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Things like this where the costs are dominated by the need to build lots of infrastructure before you can even sell to your first customer are naturally uncompetitive, and even may be natural monopolies. Without significant competition private companies will generally perform worse (as far as the consumer is concerned) than government.

This is certainly not Socialism, as the use of government to provide services that individuals and businesses cannot efficiently provide goes back thousands of years, well before Marx started writing.