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CBN: Public Service Transformation and Demand Stimulation
Leveraging public investment in broadband A workshop and seminar from CBN and The Open University, in association with the Centre for Creative Collaboration, University of London Tuesday 25 June 2013 12.30 Registration and lunch, finish 17.30 followed by drinks and networking The Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street London WC1X 9NG Local authorities and
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Principles of intervening in broadband & digital isolation
Following on from the previous post, “Public or Private“, which looked at the different models of public intervention in markets generally, this post begins to explore the different models for intervention in broadband markets. This is not a practical critique of any particular approach – more a quick look at the theory. The basis of this
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Public or private?
I seem to have found myself in a number of discussions recently where the role of public and private funding has become a hot topic – not specific to any scheme or country but in general – so I decided to write up my own view of this. Most parts of the modern world take
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A market view of the fibre evolution
It can be argued that the telecommunications market is undergoing what may be the single largest transformations in its history as it migrates away from copper-based services towards fibre-based solutions. The debate surrounding the shift often focusses on the immediately practical points of the technology choices and the mechanics of who pays for it and
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A year in deeply rural broadband
It seems to have come along very quickly but I’ve now been helping out in BDUK for a year, so it felt like a time for reflection - what has happened in the world of community broadband in the last year? BDUK will speak for itself and this is not the place for making announcements on their
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Horses for Courses – picking the right tools for the fibre job!
This blog started life on my Posterous page which I use for quick thoughts but the impacts have been troubling me so I decided to move it to my main page and add a little to it. It started when I spotted this tweet from FiberNews, run by the excellent Marc Duchesne (If you don’t
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Open is the best (only) policy – Ghost of Christmas Future
In my last post (Open is the best (only) policy) I gave a high-level view on why I think open access networks are important today but I didn’t really explore why I think that offers just a narrow glimpse of why open access will become the single most important thing network operators can do for
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Open is the best (only) policy
If I’m honest I’m a little tired of the whole open network debate – largely because I don’t think there is very much to debate. It seems very odd to me that people who are happy to argue that their own networks should be closed and vertically integrated are often well informed about the European open access models and the US
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What’s actually going on?
It still surprises me that after 18 months there seems to be confusion in the twittersphere about what is actually happening in terms of broadband deployment and the goal of the government’s policy. There have been conversations which seem to jump from a position that fibre to every home is the only real NGA solution to suggesting they are
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Steering the QE2
The hand wringing over the global economy continues, and the UK is now having to consider a second round of quantitative easing (QE – hope no-one thinks this will be about luxury cruises). In normal times we have Qualitative Easing – changing the quality of the money supply by adjusting interest rates. When you can no longer adjust
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