awn from this. The infrastructure of a connected economy is expensive and has to be financed from somewhere else by someone else. The return on investment has a long tail extending to hundreds of years. Telecommunications is only one of several bidirectional connectivity systems including the postal service with which it was successfully integrated for over fifty years. Water and sewage is of course bidirectional but modern electricity grids are also now being designed as two-way systems. There has been some debate as to the practicality of homeowners earning money from allowing passersby to access their home WiFi systems, an arrangement that could potentially result in an extra ten million access points becoming available. The snag here might be the occasional home owner who decided to increase power and uplink gain beyond conformance limits in order to attract more revenue. These caveats aside there may be merit in reconsidering the concept of the repurposed super utility. Superutilities were invented by the Victorians as a mechanism for delivering multiple services more efficiently. The Gas Light and Coke Company is one example; the General Post Office (Post and Telecommunications) is another. Utilities are delivered in the developed world with bizarre inefficiency, the only possible justification being the employment provided to the trench-digging, hole-digging and meter- reading community. It is inherently inefficient to have multiple organisations separately supplying electricity, gas, water, sewage and fibre, cable, copper and wireless connectivity. If Britain was a dictatorship there would be a strong argument in favour of setting up two organisations, the British Broadband Corporation and the National Connectivity Corporation. 18 Open forum discussion, William Webb, Future of Wireless Conference, 27 June 2011. Wireless Radio Access Network Hardware The British Broadband Corporation would take over responsibility for public service broad- casting from the BBC but would also provide broadband connectivity 