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Originally posted by scastle
BT may not recieve much help now, but they did
BT got a network that was built with taxpayer's money, and large parts of that network were upgraded with digital exchanges before BT was privatised. The post office were upgrading to digital exchanges about 15 years before there telecoms department was split off and privatised. Admittedly, this was mainly around major ciities, and BT have done a lot of work since then.
The various cable companies had protection from competition while installing their own networks (still do to some extent) but I don't think they ever recieved as much help as BT.
Anyway, to bring this back on topic, I thought Proppin' said that the network was ready for e-TV, but they were just waiting for the software download to the boxes?
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Sorry to take it off topic for a final post, but NTL et als mistake when bidding for franchises was missing the point that the cables had to be burried not strung (like BTs) therefore costing a whole lot more to put in place, thus the infrastructure build was going to pretty much bankrupt any company IMHO.
Most large infrastructure projects are very poor payers for the initial investor. The Channel Tunnel, the Railways, CATV networks, fibre layers. All have a massive future benefit to society, but the people that built them did not do so well.
I'm going to read post 1 again now.