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It is using other utilities whether you like it or not and could not exist independent of those utilities--like electric. Where is the other end of those lines hooked up to? Satellite or the same means by which telephone or cable is delivered. There isn't a big building that generates something called "internet". The internet is a derivative of other services. It is a service delivered by appliances just like air conditioning and television content.
Water service can't work without electricity. The purification and pumping facilities require electricity, gas, and phone service. I guess water isn't utilities either.
Or what about the power plant. They need water, gas and phone service to operate. I guess electricity isn't a utility either.
You fabricated a completely arbitrary and absurd definition for utilities. Everything relies on everything else. The internet has become a core utility.