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No, Labour can not buy these companies at their current market value. If Labour compulsory purchased Openreach for 1 penny per share, they could afford to buy it. If they purchased Openreach at market value, they couldn’t afford it. A Labour government would set the price for any compulsory...

NATS is majority privately owned. Oops. The rest, as per Woosh.

Yes, at a price set by government. You watch any Labour MP pushed on this during an interview. If Corbyn gets his way, he will screw the owners / investors.

I disagree. If a company is in danger of being compulsory purchased for less than its value, that is going to deter investment and therefore affect it’s value. Labour are completely clueless regarding the funding of this free broadband initiative. They won’t say how they will value the company...

I agree, but Corbyn has caused damage that otherwise would not have occurred. With each crackpot announcement, an incremental amount of more damage is done. They won’t stop until they’ve screwed everything and everyone.

I don’t think anyone disputes that, but for distribution at the the end user house / street level, wireless is where we are heading.

It won’t happen, it can’t happen, it never happens, they aren’t good enough to make it happen. They may try, but they will fail due to being outsmarted at every turn by people who are infinitely better at business than a Labour government. Labour will then resort to easy and turn on working...

They don't need money trees. It's easier to fleece PAYE monkey's & confiscate worker's pension assets (share theft from utility companies).

Things are really hotting up now with the Tories and LibDems trying to “out tree” each other. Jonson makes an initial strike by pledging 30 million new trees, Swindon hits back with 60 million new trees. How do you come back against that? It could be game over.

Anyway, with all this talk of free broadband for all, we are overlooking the LibDems pledge to introduce gender neutral school uniforms. That’s the biggie, the real vote winner.

A solid 10 meg is enough for HD video content. If it’s free, that’s not a bad gift.

The same thing is happening in my house.

Agreed, Corby is in great danger of making a massive investment in outdated infrastructure which stands a good chance of becoming redundant.

The likes of Facebook and Google will win, hands down. Too clever, too skilled, too powerful, too essential for us to have any taxation leverage. It will fall on PAYE, these schemes always do.

Internet access is cheap. My 100 megabit connection is £17:50 / month and my phone connection is £10.40 for 26 GB data / month. You just need to make the effort to negotiate with the provider. There lies the problem, it takes effort.

People with the talent and ingenuity to create two of the most valuable companies on the planet going up against Diane Abbott. Who’s going to win? The PAYE monkeys will be picking up the bill for this one. £17.50 / month worth of broadband for £70 / month. Limited offer now on at Corbyn’s, the...

Clearly, you have a very superficial knowledge of these technologies and haven’t fully understood the changes that are coming. You are so wrong, I believe that your situation is irretrievably. Sadly, you come over as being quite old and “past it” and not in possession of the tools necessary to...

I didn’t say anything about the USA being a good economic model for mobile telephony. Where did that idea come from? I didn’t say anything about replacing cable internet connections between population centres with 5G. Where did that come from? My post concerned the way in which Internet...

It will result in deadlock again and we’ll just get another extension, preferably > 12 months.

We will both remember the GPO. A Trim Phone or Standard dial phone hardwired to the wall. I think private ownership and competition has driven telecommunications advancements much more than a nationalised industry would have done. The GPO iPhone equivalent? It wouldn’t happen. Water utilities...