'Councillors might have put Cornwall's privatisation on probation. But the council had already begun acting as a joint venture partner with BT. They voted unanimously Tuesday to suspend a proposal to put up to £800m of public services into a company in which BT would own a majority stake' writes Mark Ballard on the Computer Weekly Public Sector IT blog.
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2012/10/cornwall-already-doing-deals-w.html