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Originally Posted by pedantic
They could not have maintained or upgraded, if they hadn't inherited it though.
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You'd be surprised at how poor and underinvested that network was when it was inherited. Actually if you remember that it was run by the Government you won't.
BT spent billions on that beastie. The cost of their upgrades and refurbishments by the time all was said and doesn't wasn't all that far from rebuilding a brand new network.
It was a cashcow for the government, very little investment in the telephony network at all came from them.