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telecommunication nationalisation landmarks
This page supplements the discussion
of nationalisation, highlighting some landmarks in the history
of nationalisation of domestic and offshore-owned infrastructure
and enterprises.
As the discussion noted, nationalisation - although often
ad hoc and frequently followed by privatisation
(and even re-nationalisation) - has broadly occurred in four
waves.
1889 telephone network (France)
1912 National Telephone Company (UK) - £12.5m
1940 Havas news service as Office Français d'Information
(France)
1944 Scherl
media group (Germany)
1947 Cable & Wireless (UK)
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