I think you have a point actually
Most of the infrastructure appears to have been built and subsidised by the tax payers
So it's not like, a successful private enterprise
We've paid for it, and now we're paying extra to rent it out
In 82, 50.2% of the company was sold off, in 91 the government sold off half of its remaining holdings, then 93 sold the remaining off
Pretty much @PureEvilPie
Governments can't be trusted with being the monopoly internet provider
Especially communist ones
Why are the Limp Dems looking to burn 100bn on pointless shit to save the environment while their other ridiculous policies are actively crucifying the environment?
https://twitter.com/AlfredToshLines/status/1195402782733471744
But for some reason under private ownership our telecoms has fallen to some of the worst in Europe @Eccles
Big think!
It's because of poor strategic decisions made in the early 90s
Which ones?
The decision to roll out broadband over copper rather than install fibre right at the inception
so you're for marxist internet that can be controlled and censored at the whim of a few powerful retards
xd
You cannot bridge that trust gap, Nathan
o wait youre a remainer nathan
nvm
Whatever the economics
That would have cost stupidly high amounts of money
you instantly forfeit integrity
Do you understand what the copper network is?
The copper network is the telephone cables.
Yes, and nevertheless that's what we ended up doing
so will this new system
Countries that modernised several years later had a better choice
itll cost more than what mcdonnell said
BT said 40Billion Pounds
atleast
Pretty cheap
Get it done
horse shit
It'll be more than 40b because it'll have beurocrats doing it
And will take at least 4 times as long
cos of corruption ye
We're already behind while under private ownership <:thinkgon:560211224923734026>
the amount of tax revenue lost from ISPs
Cos of lack of motivation to get it done cheaply, competently and on time
