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Originally Posted by jfman

I don’t think that a state owned broadband infrastructure amounts to Clause 4.

The best available/most efficient telecommunications infrastructure is a sole provider. Despite huge efforts to introduce competition the vast majority of the market is controlled by three or four companies.

Then add Railways, Gas, Water, Electricity, postal services. You should be very worried about state ownership on that scale in this modern day of investment economics.