Comment There's not a good record of public utilities (Score 1) 125
I'm pleased for you that it's working well at the moment. However the general pattern of public provision of utility type services is not good; the British sale of 'British Telecom' released a massive improvement in service because the company became free to invest without it adding to the debt of the state.
The usual pattern in these situations is that the pot of money generated by your rental payments will get raided by its owner and the service will slowly tail off and the delay in getting repairs done will get longer and longer. As the infrastructure ages, there will be a need to raise the charges - but that would be unpopular with the electorate. So it won't happen - and you will be left with ever declining quality of service, with NO ALTERNATIVE.
Now your country MAY be the exception - but the reality of competition in provision of as much as possible means that that sort of squeeze can't happen.