The company is the former public monopoly of telecommunications in Spain.

A public monopoly can simply do more than a private undertaking which is in competition with others.

This is particularly true where governments run both sets of services as a public monopoly.

To replace a public monopoly with a private one is not liberalisation.

Public monopolies are, more often than not, phased out reluctantly.

This did indeed run counter to the original principle of a benign public monopoly.

If public monopolies are turned into private oligopolies, we will have achieved little.

The best options when it comes to major infrastructure have frequently been a public monopoly or heavy regulation.

However, I disagree that public monopolies are the natural guarantor of such standards.

It will quickly push legislation to open the insurance industry, now a public monopoly, to domestic and foreign investors, he said.

Public monopolies were replaced by private ones, leaving high utility and transport costs.

We do not want to see public monopolies being replaced by private monopolies.

This is not the same as the case of Electricité de France or other public monopolies.

Within the state sector, the statutory public monopoly of electricity supply and express delivery service has been ended.

Public monopolies must be replaced by competitive structures.

Parliament has repeatedly warned us that while deregulation might break up public monopolies, it could open the way for private ones.

There is one thing worse than a public monopoly, and that is a private monopoly.

Mr. McCall said he was also concerned that the plan could create a public monopoly.

In Ontario's public monopoly system, costs were averaged out between base load and peaking stations.

Before 1990 public monopolies provided electric service.

By law, there are public monopolies: government-owned companies controlling oil and gas, electricity, water, etc.

One is the elimination of monopolies, including public monopolies.

Privatization, he said, "still doesn't give people choice - instead of getting something from a public monopoly, you get it from a private monopoly."

Mexican investors were concerned that selling the entire system to one buyer would have simply changed a public monopoly into a private one.

A third principle, firmly established by the Crawford Committee, was that the public monopoly should be run at arm's length from the government.