Show PUBLIC HAS PAID MORE unwarranted eci competition shown not N 0 t to benefit users the consolidation of tho the two telephone companies was to lia have ve been expected says the savannah ga press savannah n never ever really needed but one company in one respect it was a great inconvenience to have two the town was strung up with wires and each office had to keep a man gravitating between two instruments two expensive plants had to he be equipped and people who undertook to do business were assessed doubly first and last it if the expense account is footed up the public has paid more for the two services than they would have done for one good service well equipped and well handled the questions of competition is a very serious one there are certain public facilities which in their nature are natural monopolies this has been found to be true in larger places than savannah where public franchises U are given for publia conven I 1 f ence it has been found best bes t either to require full payments from public corpor corporations affons for the privileges or else to exact guarantees for public protection in these times of rigid regulation by utility commissions there is not great danger of extortion or discrimination where unwarranted competition is attempted the public in the end suffers and the very people w who he are supposed to be by the experiment |