Stories of how open reach are inaccessible and not accountable despite taking ,millions . Not only unaccountable but customer satisfaction is non existent and irrelevant to them ,
That's very different to subsidise infrastructure to communities without broadband, compared to the seizing of a company, which additionally dismantles the entire commercial broadband market, brings control to the state which then locks out competition and provides services for free. Useful that the article confirms the Commission had to approve that project, and that there would be no guarantee this populist ideology would be judged acceptable.
Am waiting for the free cars, free houses and free holidays. Ffs. These commy fkers couldnt run a bath.
There won't be free cars because there aren't enough made in this country any longer. No idea why. There won't be free housing either because there aren't enough houses, hence the homeless problem. No idea why. And free holidays is unlikely considering what happened to Thomas Cook. No idea why.
I agree - there are rules about providing state aid to private companies - but I'm pretty sure you can have state run "industries" The French government part own EDF, SNCF is also owned by the French government, I'm sure if you went to just about every EU country you can find similar examples.
I blame bl00dy Thatcher.....after reading this https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-lost-the-broadband-race-in-1990-1224784
yeah it’s basically smoke and mirrors. The EU doesn’t prevent you nationalising anything. In the UK we have nationalised both banks and rail lines within the last decade.
remember years ago a company offered free dial-up but only after 6pm, took an hour to connect if lucky by then my tail had gone floppy after choosing to knock 1 out over christa ackroyd instead such was the frustration, i had to switch when the wife accused me of having a thing for harry gration though ;-)
So, as I understand it, Labour are going to spend £20 billion so we can all have broadband, provide it free and own the company doing the providing OR the Tory plan, which is spend £5 billion so we can all have broadband and let private companies benefit from that extra infrastructure and charge us what they want for it thus increasing their profits. I know which idea I prefer and it's not the 2nd one