[LINK] Broadband for a Broad Land

[Birch, Jim]

David Boxall wrote:

>So why didn't the government of the day choose a better way? It seems
to me that a single coordinated mobile 'phone network, making optimum
use of available spectrum, would serve us best. Was it lack of
imagination or lack of talent? Or did they just want the money from
selling spectrum, so they could buy our votes?

Simple answer: fashion!

These questions aren't answered by case-by-case economic analysis; (for
reasons that I don't quite understand) they are answered with stock
ideological answers and the ideology of public ownership was not in
fashion. 

- Jim


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