Exactly, and we're talking about governments, not competing companies. "You wanna sell phones or build infrastructure here? Fine, here's a truckload of appliances to put in the middle of each pipe; no questions please". There are many ways a government can ruin businesses even without swatting their offices or raise public anger, they just need to apply different bureaucratic pressure where it is needed so that for example a permit, tax installment or reduction, whatever that otherwise would take 6 months will require say 5 years or more.