[jfman]

You can post as much subjective opinion as you like, Old Boy, it doesn't change reality.

You are also ignoring that underinvestment in nationalised industries (and battling the unions) is straight out of the neo-liberal playbook as precursors to privatisation. Those were political choices not the natural evolution of nationalised industry.

The fact that a cable operator installed a phone line subsidised at a fraction of the cost of a BT installation is a total red herring.