Thank you.
I don't know which small companies you mean in this example. The main competition to the incumbent telephone companies is coming these days from the cable companies--Rogers, Shaw, EastLink, Vidéotron--and these are certainly not small companies. I think the idea that the phone company would be taking over any of those is.... I don't think that's a credible outcome, so I'm not sure what other small companies you might have in mind in your example.