Hello. Nice to see another of your hag-ridden posts that is expressed as total nonsense but might have a kernel of sense.
When you say "sold off like 3G, 4G etc" are you referring to the fees paid by operators (Voda, O2 etc) to build and run the various network technologies? If so, those were um, to use using frequency bandwith to build run and charge people for using the networks . Same with 5G, and the broadband companies to some extent. There will be another license release one day, but it'll maybe
raise 2-3 bn based on the 5G auction.
The telecom companies own the data they generate from their networks; it's of some value, not much, but it belongs to Voda, O2 whatever. So what do you mean? As a rule they could see what site you'd visited but not what you did, not as good as internet companies for targetting.
"Easy enough to reverse match the data to work out where, when & how someone logged on to a football forum then engineer their age, gender etc and target the advertising. It already happens with cookies etc." that may or not be so, but the companies who supply and harvest that data don't pay licenses and own their data already.
Do you mean the government is building or could build a big data set that they could sell to advertisers and to do identity checks to private companies? Maybe, a little naughty perhaps. Let's hope the IT is more competent than their track'n'trace application, eh?
If it already happens with "cookies etc" why would the government replicate it? Facebook already provides pretty comprehensive datasets I believe.
So, what were you trying to say?