COMMENTARY: France is showing us how we can get "a gig in every home"

Innovative broadband policy is driving investmentBy Ken Campbell and Reef ReadU.K. LABOUR LEADER, Jeremy Corbyn recently announced, as part of his election platform, he would nationalise the telecom broadband infrastructure in that country and provide free broadband to all residents.This sent a shockwave through the U.K. telecom industry.Planned investments from the many new private fibre companies entering the market were stalled and pending transactions were stopped as investors reconsidered fibre infrastructure investment until after the U.K. election. For his part, Tory party leader Boris Johnson has announced his government would force an accelerated deployment of fibre to all U.K. residents by...