Alistair Thomas

Worcs, UK

Citizen, Rural ADSL user

It's a bit previous investing in telecoms infrastructure now, although later is obviously better than never.

3G licences. £23B wasn't it? If they'd had a vision then and traded the licenses against investment in UK infrastructure then, where would be be today? Not only would we have a world class infrastructure to support home working and education but all the tech industries would have had that the benefit of those facilities for many years. They might even have been world class exporters of technology and ideas by now instead of playing catch-up in a recession.

Let's hope that if they do invest now that when the benefits start to come in they reinvest and reinvest and never think to steal it back to waste on public sector bureaucracy. Investment in manufacturing and production is for life not just for Christmas.