I think what you're asking me about is defined areas, using the counties as an example. When you're dealing with a new country, say, like.... I've been around this business for 20 years, and this is an example that was brought up by a friend of mine. It's about an African country where they were just deploying cellular technologies.
They divided the country into five segments and allocated the carriers to look after just their segment until they fully and completely had built that network out. Once they had returned the capital on the project and the services were rendered really efficiently, they opened it up to where you could buy the neighbouring service or you could buy this other one and get the amalgamation. There is a problem there, in that they didn't think about making sure that roaming agreements between the five carriers were carried and agreed upon beforehand. Because they didn't, people would end up carrying two or three cellphones, depending on what part of the country they were in. Nothing is perfect, as you know.
Here's my really big cautionary tale about right now and where we are. As a private company, you always have to make this decision: when do I invest in the next level of technology so that I'm going to have the longest opportunity for return on my capital investment before it goes out of style? We've seen that 4G really has not been successful. Everybody knows that 5G is 20 times faster than 4G, so they say they'll wait until 5G comes out before they're going to invest in their network, prior to 3G.... I completely agree with that. It makes sense, right? I don't want to spend money and then have 18 months where I have to do a return on investment. It just doesn't work unless I have some predefined time period of capital investment, and then the recovery of the capital.
Other than that, honestly, I don't think it works anywhere else. If it did, the private industry would find a way to do it and they would build it. That's what private industries do. If they've existed for 25 years and they haven't built it, they haven't figured out a way to do it.