Your party spent £1.5 billion bribing the DUP ... Which was the point of my post..... and for what ? Thats where your taxpayer £'s are being wasted.
I wonder what Virgin Media think about their 'BT infrastructure' or indeed the many independent UK internet providers in rural locations using satellite links.... The various independent providers mostly use the infrastructure as laid down by BT so a mandated Govt program to provide infrastructure would be no different.....
They are only commercial companies employing normal people. Expendable.I wonder what Virgin Media think about their 'BT infrastructure' or indeed the many independent UK internet providers in rural locations using satellite links.
Because once there is no commercial imperative to do things better, or even well, then people stop caring, start to not give a toss and service spirals inexorably downwards. Simple really.
I wonder what Virgin Media think about their 'BT infrastructure' or indeed the many independent UK internet providers in rural locations using satellite links.
Consolidation provided benefits I guess, but I am not sure what argument or proof there is that being owned by the state was beneficial. So yes, I think they would have been much more successful if we'd allowed market competition and allowed the best to rise to the top and acquire others.so we would have been better sticking with a rickety local and unreliable electricity supply which also wouldn't benefit from the economies of scale when procuring plant and machinery or maybe you liked town gas and those big old gasometers in every town? Nationalisation was what improved them. The bad part of nationalisation is if/when the govt in charge neglects the industries or underfunds them - you know like they have done with the NHS. Simple really.
This election is as expected, only dirtier.
I'm not posting in here much as it's stuffed with the same tory fuckwits trolling, spitting bile and sucking Johnson's dick.
The arseholes might well get the result they crave, and the only comfort to be had is the sincere hope they all suffer the consequences.
Your party spent £1.5 billion bribing the DUP ... Which was the point of my post..... and for what ? Thats where your taxpayer £'s are being wasted.
That money went to NI and everyone living there.
Its become almost established fact that its sat in some Swiss bank account under the name Arlene but that isn't the case and it wasn't a bribe as bribes are illegal.
Virgin are the only major provider not to use the Openreach network- they have their own.
You've been missed with content like that Fumble old bean.
I'd imagine we'd buy it from France or Germany perhaps? Do you imagine we'll be at war with them any time soon? Or with China, for that matter?There are some things that you have to spend on ... so that you can maintain your independence / capability..... you've not answered the question tho. What do we do in the event of a crisis such as war when we have lost our steel manufacturing capability ?
And who is going to invest in the next gen fibre (or whatever comes next) when there's zero money in it?Who is going to buy their broadband product when a free one hits the market?
Manifesto bribes tend to precede an election.
Hmmmmm..And who is going to invest in the next gen fibre (or whatever comes next) when there's zero money in it?
Ah so EU rules don't affect this then. Cool beansBBC NI...
‘The European Commission has approved, under State aid rules, €2.6bn of public subsidy for the Irish National Broadband Plan. The Commission concluded that the scheme's positive effects on competition outweigh potential negative effects brought about by public intervention’.
Bless.