YES!!! I was around in the late 60’s when AT&T was broken up into a ton of different companies. People were screaming & gnashing their teeth at the thought of breaking up our main communication organization. When the main portion of AT&T was snapped off, it remained AT&T but much smaller & other companies such as Southern Bell, South Central Bell, Chesapeake & Potomac, & others came into existence. Depending on the region, all that seemed to happen was that the service remained the same…ONLY the name changed.
Over a period of time, other phone services arose out of the ashes & suddenly we had some competition!!! Prices began to go down just a little, but still down, The one thing that we didn’t have was one company deciding how the entire country was allowed to communicate & how much they were allowed to charge. When there is NO competition, you are stuck with what you have, so you grumble but accept that there is little to nothing that you can do about it.
Pretty much the same thing has been happening with the mobile communication companies. Some became too big, so now they are being pared back down to size!!!
I don’t do Facebook & I’ve NEVER been on Instagram nor WhatsApp, so I have NO dog in this fight!!! Objectively speaking, I think that FB has grown way too large & arrogant. I can see the possibilities of something better coming out of this!!!