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Originally Posted by Top banana
The BT network was paid for by the tax payers and handed to BT as part of its privatisation, ie they never paid a penny for it. The predecessor s to VM shelled out 13 billion pounds of their own money to build their Network. That the difference as I see it. Seems a tad unfair and can't see it happening unless there is some sort of payback to VM
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I have to say that my understanding is similar to this sentiment.
In return for being 'given' a network, built with public money, BT, a private company, had some obligation to share their network with other private companies. I don't know whether this obligation has since finished.
Likewise, it seems unfair that Virgin Media would be expected to share their network, built with their own money. That would be like me being told I had to rent out my spare room in my wholly-owned and paid-for house.