There's still competition in mobile, although I always feel there's an element of cartel feeling to it (one increases charges, they all do etc) and it makes sense to share some infrastructure - even though the backhaul, billing, services can differ.
In rail, the competition comes from the franchise bidding, not really the end service. Yes, some places have train operator specific tickets, but by and large the competition is done when a company offers to run things for less money (or to pay a higher premium).
When it comes to water, I do find it odd that this isn't nationalised. There's no alternative network of water. Likewise gas and electricity, although the argument is that you can 'buy' energy bought from various sources around the world.
I think telecoms is the one service that competition has helped. I am not entirely convinced about the others. Rail is probably better overall, but I'd sooner have a TfL style way of running things (not too dissimilar to the way BR did things - but using outside investment, because we all know that if all of these things were Government run then we'd have the bare minimum service and whenever cuts needed to be made, compared to the NHS, police, schools etc, it's clear that telecoms and rail would be hit first).
In rail, the competition comes from the franchise bidding, not really the end service. Yes, some places have train operator specific tickets, but by and large the competition is done when a company offers to run things for less money (or to pay a higher premium).
When it comes to water, I do find it odd that this isn't nationalised. There's no alternative network of water. Likewise gas and electricity, although the argument is that you can 'buy' energy bought from various sources around the world.
I think telecoms is the one service that competition has helped. I am not entirely convinced about the others. Rail is probably better overall, but I'd sooner have a TfL style way of running things (not too dissimilar to the way BR did things - but using outside investment, because we all know that if all of these things were Government run then we'd have the bare minimum service and whenever cuts needed to be made, compared to the NHS, police, schools etc, it's clear that telecoms and rail would be hit first).




unless they partner with Three wholesale network.
From the AS i can see Three has alot of peers then O2, O2 only have two peers, BT and telefonica wholesale network.