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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Why we should add Ofcom and OfGEM to David Davis’s list of watchdogs in need of a good kicking.
David Davis has said, in the Sunday Times, that " 1 Comment
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UK Telcos and ISPs split over broadband rationing
In a BBC news item today "ISPs split over UK Open Internet code of practice" the term "Open Internet" has replaced "Net Neutrality" as newspeak for bandwidth rationing in much the same way...
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Is Treasury getting its act together on Infrastructure Investment?
The departure of the DECC permanent secretary (days after the announcement of the 0 Comments
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Crony capitalism in practice? Green taxes, Smart meters etc.
I never did understand why we were going to have to pay so much extra to energy companies to get smart meters. Just before Christmas I chaired a meeting which indicated that spending billions on separate communications networks was unnecessary: the data volumes were piddling and could be handled...
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Will the proposed BDUK framework do more harm than good?
Last week, in Brussels, Ed Vaizey talked of the need to use market forces to pull through investment in broadband. A day later Jeremy Hunt wrote to MPs on the replacement of central competitions for funding by allocations to authorities to "be made available once we have...
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