The one thing here I keep seeing, lack of competition. The government wants its friends to make money until it owns everything. Just my opinion as we all keep saying in time we all won't own anything. Sadly we can all see it coming abs we all can do nothing we've become dependent on electronics and lack encryption to communicate and organize if we wanted to do anything. The Obama movie showed us the power of what a complete blackout can do to the uninformed. Pretty scary then you get a jerk like Elon laughing about how he had the power to pull the plug.
Made me take a look around, I don't see very many radio antennas anywhere, nor do I know where one could source a unit any longer outside of vehicle units. I hope you see my point and where I'm going.