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by azalemeth 1270 days ago
Three are owned by CK Hutchinson Holdings [1], a Hong-Kong and Cayman islands registered multinational conglomerate that owns a number of telephone/ISP companies, ports, and some gas pipelines, as well as the main HV electricity maintainer in the east and south east of England, UK Power Networks.

Rather than privatisation giving democratic power over essential infrastructure to good-old capitalist citizens, I would politely argue that we appear to have sold it to the Chinese government instead.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CK_Hutchison_Holdings