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10Mbps for world+dog, hoots UK.gov, and here is how we're doing it

Doctor Syntax Silver badge

"I still can't work out why this is privatised."

Because over 3 decades ago it became all too obvious that successive governments hadn't been and still weren't prepared to make the required levels of ongoing investment in the old GPO network. The only way to get adequate investment into the network and to recover money from such previous as had been made was to privatise it.

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