But the state monopoly is keeping its grip over access to ultra-high capacity submarine cables.
The solution, Richman says, is to transform what was formerly a state monopoly into a competitive market.
Mr Viik hopes this will deter those trying to build cyberdefences on a military or state monopoly model.
This is not nearly enough, however, to keep Zimbabwe supplied with petrol (the distribution of which is a state monopoly).
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While most other rich countries chose to make betting on horse-racing a state monopoly, Britain legalised private bookies in the 1960s.
An increasing number of companies in Germany are offering discounted broadband deals, making it harder for the former state monopoly to survive.
But the near state monopoly has little to do with bank profitability.
Geographically cut off from the pipelines of state monopoly Pemex that feed the rest of the country, Baja relies on gas from California.
FarEasTone is a new competitor, one of a handful of such firms that were allowed to challenge the former state monopoly in 1997.
Tiger Pools has become engulfed in a high-profile corruption case--a reminder why betting is often illegal or a state monopoly in the first place.
The government has also backed away from pet gimmicks such as introducing a state monopoly on alcohol sales, or turning gold reserves into coins.
Sweden has a complicated relationship with alcohol - immoderate consumption goes hand in hand with fearsomely high prices, official disapproval and a state monopoly on selling liquor.
It has got around the state monopoly on advertising by deploying its trademark blimps, and pre-empted objections to that by using them to advocate a worthy cause: safe driving.
Mexico's new government is negotiating with rival political parties to use the oil industry and state monopoly Pemex to a different end: cheaper energy for a more competitive economy.
But the Freedonian Food Reserve (popularly known as the Fred), the state monopoly that controls food distribution on Freedonia, imports the same amount of food each week regardless of the season.
Several months later, when Russian state monopoly Gazprom bought a controlling stake in the project from its shareholders - foreign companies Royal Dutch Shell, Mitsui and Mitsubishi - the dispute was settled.
Iraq's Governing Council, appointed and guided by the Americans, announced that Iraq's economy is to be privatised and opened up to foreign investment, with the exception of its oil industry, which remains a state monopoly.
The offices of Gazprom, Russia's giant state gas monopoly, are also reported to have been raided by police.
During the campaign, Mr Fox shied away from his previous suggestion of privatising Pemex, the creaking state oil monopoly.
They announced they had clinched a deal on the issue of France's state electricity monopoly and made progress on other matters.
They cover a broad range: from the teachers' union to Pemex, the state oil monopoly, and Telmex, a private telecoms near-monopoly.
Thus Telmex, the state telecoms monopoly, was privatised in 1990, but not regulated till years later, and made to face competition later still.
As the former state oil monopoly, YPF tugs at nationalist heartstrings.
More serious is the effect of Telkom, the state telephone monopoly.
NTT, the former state telecoms monopoly is broken up under the aegis of a holding company in 1999, it will be taxed on a consolidated basis.
President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto wants to shake up the sector by opening up state oil monopoly Pemex to more private investment, hoping it will help boost production.
When Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, suggested a merger between Gazprom and Ukraine's state gas monopoly, Naftogaz, Mr Yanukovich quipped that Russia would have to give Ukraine half of Gazprom first.
This is becoming increasingly urgent: the boss of Pemex, the state oil monopoly, gave warning this week that unless private investment was allowed, Mexico's oil exports could drop by two-thirds by 2006.
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