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British Telecom was spun out of the Post Office, it wasn't a formerly private business that had been taken over by the Government.
by rjsw 7y ago
British Telecom was spun out of the Post Office, it wasn't a formerly private business that had been taken over by the Government.
- walshemj 7y agoActually not the UK government nationalised most of the Uk's private telecom businesses before WW1
- Gibbon1 7y agoI think the telegraph system in the UK was a state owned or controlled monopoly. Lol, I tried searching to back this up and this popped up! https://www.jstor.org/stable/25101819?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents https://www.jstor.org/stable/25101819?seq=1#metadata_info_ta... I read stuff like this is it feels like the West has utterly forgotten things that were well and clearly understood 100 years ago.