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How Corbyn got his broadband nationalisation numbers wrong – by a factor of three

16 November 2019

6:14 AM

16 November 2019

6:14 AM

John McDonnell today explained that the broadband nationalisation plans are perfectly affordable – upkeep costs would just be £230m a year. This was based on a report from the National Infrastructure Commission. It compared going for full fibre (the bars in blue, below) with incremental upgrades of the copper system (orange, below) and gave a £6.9bn

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