RE: Times Article.18 Dec 2021 14:57
Thinking outside the box, 5G, Ai and EV vehicles are the future, the company requires someone with huge amount of cash and wisdom to change things, Elon Musk could be the man.
The pension fund deficit wouldn't be issue for someone like Elon Musk, he is worth $300 billion. BT has the 5G technology, Elon has the know-how for Ai and is already manufacturing EV vehicles.
The reasons why most consumers are delaying on purchasing EV vehicles is lack of infrastructure for charging points in the UK and the cost to install this in homes.
My thoughts are if Elon Musk bought BT, he could solve this problem, he could then offer 5G for the next evolution of EV vehicles, he could then offer an alternative supplier of electricity, by installing 240v cables to customers premises for charging points via the existing telecoms duct network.
There would need to be some inter-connect with National grid, but this would take very little time and money compared to starting from scratch
All the homes that have a UG feed could be quickly connected up and other dwelling could be connected as part of the FFTH upgrade.
The Fibre network is passive, ie, no power, the power cable to supply the homes could be installed in the same duct as induction doesn’t affect the fibre wavelength or cause any service issues.
The revenues would increase massively, as would dividends and a company that has been held back for years could be a company that is highly valuable.