Because of the Thatcher government wanting to "open the market" to American telecoms, in the 1980s they stopped the world leading Fibre rollout that BT had alre

Because of the Thatcher government wanting to "open the market" to American telecoms, in the 1980s they stopped the world leading Fibre rollout that BT had already started. Decades later the UK is still behind the countries that took all the tech and continued what we'd started.