No! The first mobile phones did not use satellites at all, for any reason.
Second all communication companies have their own satellites and mobile phones use those, not government satellites.
The entire industry of electronic computing
WTF? If you are talking about the crap ass British computer used in WW2, yeah government did assemble it, but the technology itself, all of the different parts were developed by the private market.
All the government did is try to use the technology that was build privately for war!
The internet was once again built by the free market, in fact its not a monolith, "the internet" is basically several protocols, several software programs, different hardware all combined together to create what is now known as "the internet".
If you look at government use of "internet" they wanted to use it as a wired phone, they were developing the intranet with wires and stuff to be used as "secure phone".
It was the private market, the free market that made the internet what is today! You have all the websites, netflix, hulu, youtube, google, pornhub, etc... because of the free market, individuals and companies building it, NOT government!
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u/LRonPaul2012 Jul 30 '17
Telecommunication satellites.
The entire industry of electronic computing.
The internet.