When I lived in the UK BT had already been privatized, and my own local telco, Kingston Communications, was independent of BT and city-owned. It was terrible, but not worse than BT. Fast forward a few decades, KCOM is no longer owned by Hull Council but they have retained some spirit of public service in their corporate tradition and they have just made fibre available to 100% of their customers. The solution is obvious: don’t nationalize BT, just force them to become a subsidiary of KCOM.
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