Not specifically - but any situation that requires per-customer infrastructure buildout or otherwise benefits from network effects or economies of scale will tend to naturally form a monopoly, even without government interference. And when deploying and maintaining such infrastructure requires digging up streets or hanging stuff on utility poles, the local populace (by way of government) has a vested interest in minimizing redundant infrastructure and the associated risks and inconveniences of maintenance. Which pretty much translates to accepting the inevitability of a monopoly, and at least strapping some regulations on them in th process. Of course regulatory capture tends to undermine those pretty quickly.
Personally I think a better way to handle such natural monopolies might be to separate infrastructure from service: There's one power line company, one dataline company, one waterline company, etc. But all of them are prohibited from selling any services to customers - instead they can only rent customer access to service providers (probably at a flat rate, with mandatory service availability - that's the price of getting the monopoly). Slightly complicated for things like water and power where there's not really a 1:1 correspondence between source and sink, but flow metering is already in place, so really it's mostly a matter of just making sure the incoming water/power is meeting the required quality standards.
That wouldn't totally fix the problem, but at least it would help avoid regulatory capture since you've got competing business interests lobbying different sides of the regulatory debate. Might be able to improve things even further by having the -line companies not actually own the infrastructure, instead being essentially a deployment and maintenance company hired by the government to service the infrastructure - not unlike road maintenance crews. Get too greedy and the city/county can just fire them and hire a replacement: the infrastructure belongs to the people. You'd probably have some tragedy of the commons issues there, but carefully incentivized contracts could probably keep that to a minimum, and it's not like the current situation is leading to companies falling all over themselves to properly maintain the infrastructure.