The one privatisation I believe the UK got right was British Telecom.
We now have a strongly regulated infrastructure side called OpenReach - the price they can charge for last mile connectivity is limited, and as such we have a load of different ISP's which either compete on tech and service (AAISP, Zen) or cost (PlusNet et al).
And then a proliferation of alternative last mile providers has also occurred - I now have the option of 900/100 FTTP from OpenReach based suppliers, 1130/104 DOCSIS from Virgin Media and 900/900 FTTP from CityFibre based suppliers.
This is partly because the _early_ days of private BT were so bad that they really had to regulate, hard. Openreach didn’t come into existence for more than 20 years after the privatisation of BT, and it happened because the state required it to happen.
It is one of those rare cases where Government actually knows where the monopoly could get into and formed OpenReach. Probably worth a submission on its own [1] but UK is slowly and surely getting all the FTTP roll out.
Hopefully there will be enough push to get 1Gbps Connection to every home rather than settled on 30Mbps.
[1] EXCLUSIVE: January 2025 update on broadband availability across the UK, nations and regions
The one privatisation I believe the UK got right was British Telecom.
We now have a strongly regulated infrastructure side called OpenReach - the price they can charge for last mile connectivity is limited, and as such we have a load of different ISP's which either compete on tech and service (AAISP, Zen) or cost (PlusNet et al).
And then a proliferation of alternative last mile providers has also occurred - I now have the option of 900/100 FTTP from OpenReach based suppliers, 1130/104 DOCSIS from Virgin Media and 900/900 FTTP from CityFibre based suppliers.
I'm paying £40 a month for the latter.