The “Great British Broadband Boost” is ringfenced for BT.
The DCMS Press release headlined "The Great British Broadband Boost" needs to be put in context. The "boost" comprises £465 million 
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Theresa May has embraced Gigabit Britain. How will her ministers ensure delivery?
When the Prime Minister used her closing conference speech to say it is "just not right" that "half of people living in rural areas, and so many small businesses, can't get a decent broadband connection" we knew something really had changed. 0 Comments
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A Dirty Digest of the Executive Summary of Ofcom Strategic Review document
The Executive Summary of the Discussion Document for the Ofcom Strategic Review is 20 pages long and omits a key phrase from the main paper regarding the impact of regulation on...
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BT declares war on Ofcom – your opportunity to help reset the UK regulatory landscape
I was intrigued by Gavin Patterson's reported attack on Ofcom for even raising the question of separating out...
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Broadband Competition spreads from Shropshire to Shoreditch
We can now see the result of last year's change of policy and leadership at BDUK accompanied by rediscovery by Ofcom to its duties as a competition regulator. Those Counties which held out from pledging everything in support of extending BT's twenty year-old 21CN infrastructure appear now to be...
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The evolving on-line world leaves BDUK trailing in its wake
Today is the deadline for responses to the BDUK consultation on which I blogged at the beginning of October . It may helpful to take the opportunity to summarise why BDUK should...
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Which should concern us more: lack of privacy or lack of resilience?
The rash of stories about state surveillance and 0 Comments
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How do we make the UK a globally trusted location for e-commerce?
The current global controversies over cyberbullying (including over Twitter), fraud (where...
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Would re-opening the UK Broadband market to competition be a fitting tribute to Mrs Thatcher?
Amid all the "tributes" and suggestions for memorials we have forgotten what would have happened if some of her less controversial achievements, such as telecoms liberalisation leading to full competition in the local loop, had not been reversed after 1997. The independent regulators put in place...
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Drowning in Data Leaks v. Death by Data Protection
What is good practice in information governance? I have blogged before on the Information Society Alliance 0 Comments
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