emPSN Services Limited

The economic bargain behind emPSN Services Limited was never simply a broadband line. Schools and councils were paying for local accountability, coordinated procurement, a routed education-network path, safeguarding services, supplier management and a support desk that could turn a connectivity problem into somebody else's operational problem. The public record now shows the limit of that bargain: when enough customers can find alternative providers, and when the cost of managing reliability, redundancy, equipment, support and compliance remains fixed, the regional consortium model can stop covering its own weight.