Why consumers always lose in 2015′s telecoms market

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Plans to force both public-sector organisations and mobile network providers to pool their digital resources are doomed to fail, argues Chris Middleton, founder of Strategist Magazine, explains why

In February 2015, the government published details of over 13,000 miles of publicly owned digital infrastructure and outlined the strategic steps that it believes are necessary to ensure that these...

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