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Network Rail Shelves Plan to Privatise UK Fibre Optic Infrastructure

Network Rail appears to have shelved a plan that would have seen the national railway operator effectively privatise their large track-side fibre optic and data infrastructure, which carries all sorts of transport, video (CCTV etc.), signalling and others communications.

The operator has been looking at a solution to make more money from the infrastructure ever since they put in an application for Code Powers from Ofcom in 2014, which revealed that they were planning to wholesale the network out to other ISPs and use it to boost Mobile coverage.