Telekom is a profitable enterprise. Yet, telecom infrastructure in Germany is on a remarkably bad level and relatively expensive. Cell coverage is also still bad, especially when travelling via rail or car.
With the exception if the Japanese Rail, all the other examples are different in one crucial detail: they are not natural monopolies.
I don’t think you’re aware of how bad the national railway has been managed in japan, they even went broke in the 80s with trillions in debt and had to split up sell off all their infrastructure and vehicles. That’s the reason why there’s often many non-interconnected competing stations at the same site today.
Yeah, I have absolutely no clue about japanese rail whatsoever, so I chose to not comment about it.
For Germany though, the rail „privatization“ has been an absolute failure no matter how you try to spin it, unfortunately. But hey, at least we have nice rolling stock!
I would not call telecommunications privatization in Germany a success story.
Yes, we can use more devices now. Prices have stayed more or less the same (or have risen, corrected by inflation. Service quality has collapsed, though.
> Telecom in Germany
Telekom is a profitable enterprise. Yet, telecom infrastructure in Germany is on a remarkably bad level and relatively expensive. Cell coverage is also still bad, especially when travelling via rail or car.
With the exception if the Japanese Rail, all the other examples are different in one crucial detail: they are not natural monopolies.
I don’t think you’re aware of how bad the national railway has been managed in japan, they even went broke in the 80s with trillions in debt and had to split up sell off all their infrastructure and vehicles. That’s the reason why there’s often many non-interconnected competing stations at the same site today.
Compared to the state owned Deutsch bahn or pre competition trenitalia Japanese railways are quiet good.
(There is plenty of examples for good or bad private or state owned railways. It's just not black and white)
Yeah, I have absolutely no clue about japanese rail whatsoever, so I chose to not comment about it.
For Germany though, the rail „privatization“ has been an absolute failure no matter how you try to spin it, unfortunately. But hey, at least we have nice rolling stock!
Yep, compared to other countries, Germany is almost third-world country, when it comes to reliable Internet service, and prices.
Yeah, after all, we need to protect the financial interests of a formerly state-owned monopoly :)
I would not call telecommunications privatization in Germany a success story.
Yes, we can use more devices now. Prices have stayed more or less the same (or have risen, corrected by inflation. Service quality has collapsed, though.
Prices collapsed, too. Sorry, this is just bad nostalgia. It was really bad if you reqd the details.
Allowing private competition is generally good, but converting an existing state monopoly to a private corporation is generally bad.
> Allowing private competition is generally good,
Except when they quickly build cartels. See internet in Germany.