Turbocharging Full Fibre/5G Broadband
Turbocharging is the new post-Boris buzzword. It is apt for the £5 billion pound boost to broadband roll out announced at the Conservative party conference. It does not...
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.
Broadband at the Party Conferences: why it matters
Without a surge of investment in "future ready" fibre and wireless networks next spring, the UK will fall behind France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Spain, let alone Scandinavia and the Pacific Rim before the Brexit negotiations are complete. If so, Brexit might indeed be the disaster the...
The politics of access and wayleave charges
The difference between the costs quoted by BT for upgrading its legacy network and those quoted by its competitors for building new fibre networks puzzles those in Devon and Somerset who compare the compare the deal their council was being pressured to accept with those made by Gloucestershire and...
Its not rocket science, just a WAN in a hostile environment
It was delighted to see the reference to Gigaplus Argyll in the article on
Transforming broadband across the UK – not just Bristol
The transformation of the UK broadband market over the past year is illustrated by presence of BT,
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...
Yesterday I learned why our forecasts of broadband demand are so wrong
Yesterday I attended the excellent INCA Super Connected Cities seminar in Birmingham at which two contrasting examples of the effect of providing fibre services to...
Political uncertainty is the biggest barrier to creating a UK broadband infrastructure
How many times a day, week, month or year would you be dead if your Internet connection was your life support system. I...
How does the UK move to a high resilience, secure and ubiquitous, post-internet, any-to-any “mesh”?
A couple of days ago I said that the importance of the