When public infrastructure goes private - Los Angeles Times

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When public infrastructure goes private - Los Angeles Times:

 " . . . today's model of building public infrastructure is to let private companies do it.

Americans are becoming more dependent on privately operated toll roads to get where we're going, and on private delivery services like FedEx and UPS to carry our parcels. But the greatest shift has occurred in the sector that is most crucial in the information age: communications and data networks."


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