True but the driver before the world wide web would have been cable TV over fibre to the home.
She decided it was better to open the market to foreign cable TV providers and so barred BT from selling TV access.
Without TV there was no driver for fibre investment.
Where BT would have had a requirement to provide universal access to fibre, as with phone provision, Telewest and NTL just did geograhically limited roll outs of legacy coax and the rest is history.
Fair enough, but I don’t see how this supports her thinking the internet was a fad not worth investing in.
Also it denies agency to those in power in the decades that followed. I mean did that decision bind the policymakers that followed when it became clear how important the internet really was?
She decided it was better to open the market to foreign cable TV providers and so barred BT from selling TV access.
Without TV there was no driver for fibre investment.
Where BT would have had a requirement to provide universal access to fibre, as with phone provision, Telewest and NTL just did geograhically limited roll outs of legacy coax and the rest is history.