[sefarkas]

... drive current providers out of the business

Once the private companies are out but the demand for service remains, the government will step in and we can all watch creeping socialism at work.

[Myrddin]

When the government seizes the assets of the private networking companies, they will also claim their ownership means they have total control of what passes over those networks. It will be monitored even more closely than it is now. Dissent against the regime will be punished.