Business Secretary Lord Mandelson said it was "absolutely clear" that the service would remain publicly owned.
He likens publicly owned U.S. companies to "stray cats" in desperate need of an owner.
Publicly owned networks overwhelmingly help public safety, schools, libraries and other community anchor institutions.
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So they go and privatise the only successful publicly owned franchise, the East Coast line.
Chinese companies, private as well as publicly owned, are investing in farming, manufacturing and retailing.
Would the board of directors of the publicly owned Dodgers have authorized over-the-top parties?
With some 112, 000 shareholders, the Packers are the only publicly owned team in America.
The government has announced that it will not sell off publicly owned forests in England.
New York, after all, already has plenty of (publicly owned) toll roads, bridges and tunnels.
Treasury rules dictate that borrowing by publicly owned bodies has to be counted as public borrowing.
But the alternative, retaining the Post Office as a publicly owned company, might stymie investment.
This is what the government is about to do with another scarce, publicly owned commodity: Radio spectrum.
He would accomplish this by initiating research coverage on them, the way analysts cover publicly owned stocks.
The sole purpose of a business (especially one publicly owned) is to make money, at all costs.
In either case, managements of many publicly owned corporations, concerned over the stock market impact, would probably run their businesses differently.
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The trade and industry secretary, Margaret Beckett, wants to preserve the Post Office as a publicly owned company.
That would be another walk along an old logging road now publicly owned.
And the state of Hesse said this week that it would change the law governing its publicly owned savings banks.
Spokesman Jim Allen said the TVA, the nation's largest publicly owned utility company, is "on track" to correct the problems.
Second, laws allowing council tenants to buy their homes have resulted in the sale of 1.7m publicly owned houses since 1979.
Marietta had a wholesale-only network using a far different business model than the one followed by most publicly owned broadband systems.
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Regardless of who gets the bid, the stadium will be publicly owned, and the new tenant will sign a long-term lease.
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Mr Livingstone's preferred alternative is a bond issue to finance much-needed investment in the Underground, which would remain wholly publicly owned.
Under PPP, London Underground is still publicly owned, but private companies were appointed to maintain and upgrade the infrastructure and support services.
Sullivan's group is a nonprofit organization representing the nation's largest publicly owned water utilities, which provide drinking water to about 160 million people.
For years the publicly owned banks have been able to undercut their private competitors because their borrowings enjoy a state guarantee and are therefore cheaper.
Most palaces located in the major German cities are publicly owned.
The SDC added that it was essential for the scheme to be publicly funded and publicly owned in order to ensure compliance to the environmental legislation.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dates back to 1896, and is one of the most widely followed indices of large, publicly owned companies based in the United States.
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Mr Mercer said that as a publicly owned company with Scottish ministers as their ultimate boss, it allowed the money and any surplus to go back to customers.
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