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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.
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But what you have to remember, when BT was sold into the private sector, it was (indirectly) the taxpayers that benefitted from the sale of shares, most of this went directly back into goverment coffers.