This archive report was first published on 21 November 2019.
On November 21, 2019, the Labour Party in Britain made a surprise announcement about a plan to provide free high-speed fiber internet to every household and business in the country by 2030.
The proposal, which has raised questions about how a free broadband service would work and who would pay for it, involves the government taking over parts of the country's largest internet provider, Openreach, a subsidiary of the telecommunications giant BT.
According to Jeremy Corbyn, the party's leader, the plan would reverse decades of privatization and put the government in charge of an enormous national infrastructure project.
However, the details of the plan are still unclear, and it remains to be seen whether it is even possible to implement such a service.
