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Public utilities can be Privately Owned or Publicly Owned . Publicly owned utilities include cooperative and municipal utilities. Municipal utilities may actually include territories outside of city limits or may not even serve the entire city. Cooperative Utilities are owned by the customers they serve. They are usually found in Rural areas. Private utilities, also called investor owned utilities, are owned by Investors . Unlike public companies, private utilities may be listed on the Stock Exchange . Private, in this context, means not owned by the Public or the Government . In poorer Developing Countries , public utilities are often limited to wealthier parts of major cities, as used to be the case in Developed Countries in the nineteenth century. However, in some developing countries utilities do provide services to a large share of the urban population, such as in the case of Water And Sanitation In Latin America . Examples of utilities are:
Developments in technology have eroded some of the natural monopoly aspects of traditional public utilities. For instance, Electricity Generation , Electricity Retailing , Telecommunication and Postal Service s have become competitive in some countries and the trend towards Liberalization , Deregulation and Privatization of public utilities is growing. However, the network infrastructure used to distribute most utility products and services has remained largely natural monopolostic. COMMON CLASSIFICATIONS OF UTILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES
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