[Neil]

I have said before that I find it strange that the government is paying to improve BT's network when BT is a privately owned company.

Virgin are doubling my speed this month from 10MB to 20MB, the government, as far as I am aware, have not paid for this, the money has come from us customers paying our bill each month.

Why are the government paying to improve BT's network and not BT paying for it?
I can only assume that BT are not charging its customers enough money for their services to be able to pay for this work themselves.

I would prefer to see the government improving its own responsibilities like hospitals and the shocking state of our roads than giving it away to private companies.