Petition to nationalise telecom infrastructure

I've started a petition on 38 degress calling for the nationalisation of the telecoms infrastructure currently owned and run by Openreach so that it can be run for the benefit of service providers and users.

If you'd like to sign it click here

Please let me be clear though this is nothing to do with thinkbroadband whatsoever and is just something I have set up myself.

ROFLMAO !

Surely nationalising Openreach will line the pockets of BT Shareholders. What price are you gong to pay us.

Good luck with that, I'm sure it will succeed just like the many internet petitions before yours did

Hmmm, I think I'll pass.

It used to be nationalised, no choice, long waiting lists etc.

So how would it be run? Sorry to ask you for some real detail.

In reply to a post by RandomJointer:

Surely nationalising Openreach will line the pockets of BT Shareholders. What price are you gong to pay us.

A quid seems reasonable.

You should include the phone masts too.

Let me explain my thoughts.

BT are doing an incredibly bad job IMO of operating a critical infrastructure IMO (not rolling out broadband universally, removing tools from ISPs to allow them to perform proper diagnostics, I could go on)

Note that this is NOT a dig at the good folks maintaining the infrastructure day in and day out.

My idea is something administered by the state but works in practice like one of the Internet Exchange Points whereby the companies that provide services over the infrastructure pay into any own an equal share and it run for the benefit of all, not just where BT can make a tidy profit.

BT are doing an incredibly bad job IMO of operating a critical infrastructure

Evidence?

My idea is something administered by the state but works in practice like one of the Internet Exchange Points whereby the companies that provide services over the infrastructure pay into any own an equal share and it run for the benefit of all, not just where BT can make a tidy profit.

So who ever cheapens the service gets the most customers and there would be even less money to upgrade the network.