The plan to find alternatives to an overweening state in the provision of public services made sense only if profitmaking firms were fully part of the mix.
Overall investors are still eyeing fairly strong bond auctions in most European countries but it is hard to tell at what point this expectation gets fully priced into the mix and more is required to keep the upward momentum going.
The immediacy of social media platforms, coupled with vulnerable youngsters who are socially inexperienced and not fully developed emotionally, can create a combustible mix.
"It's important that there is a third ecosystem that's brought into the mix here, and we are fully supportive of that with Microsoft, " said Verizon's finance chief Francis Shammo last week.