Yes - were it not for municipalities' ability to enforce monopoly rights we would often have multiple landline, cable, garbage, electric and other providers competing on quality and cost. Some say these are "natural monopolies" but there are cities around the world where consumers have a choice of providers for these services. True natural monopolies are very, very rare but are almost always created by government action. Patents are another example.
> Yes - were it not for municipalities' ability to enforce monopoly rights we would often have multiple landline, cable, garbage, electric and other providers competing on quality and cost.
You are conflating different types of problems.
Things which are natural monopolies are phone, cable, internet, electricity, water, etc. It is needlessly expensive to lay in multiple cables/pipes to a house solely in order to provide competition. Oddly, cable/internet is one of the few places where this actually isn't completely true since pulling a single fiber is almost as expensive as pulling multiple fibers.
I don't know why you cite garbage collection, though. Garbage collection is completely different. I know many towns that have multiple garbage collection services. You don't have to lay in an infrastructure in order to collect garbage.
