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Is the future of TV in doubt?
Today Sky announced its to launch a standalone internet TV service. This seems perfectly timed given that NetFlix has recently entered the UK market, joining Amazon’s LoveFilms and a rash of other services and platforms like Google’s YouTube, Apple.TV, and the BBC’s iPlayer. All this reminded me of something I heard a while back at
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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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An observation on British broadband #2
One of my long-term predictions has been that Internet Service Providers will ultimately disappear as we know them today. They were a necessary middle-man when we were trying coax our voice-grade network into the internet-era; dial-up internet evolved from banks of modems providing access to bulletin boards and mail hosts to an interconnected inter-net. Now we are
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Phrenology of the Thinking Cloud
When I set out to distil my thoughts on a Thinking Cloud it looked like three chunks were going to be enough but by the end of it all there were some loose ends still remaining – the combination of a lot to say, a big subject and perhaps the long-form limitations of a blog
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The Thinking Cloud – Part III
In Part I, the shape of cloud computing was considered and how the metaphor was perhaps not able to encapsulate the scale of change it may bring. Part II began to explore the impact the cloud may have on broadband services; that the evolution view of next generation broadband is largely wrong and will prevent society from
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The Thinking Cloud – Part II
In the first bit of my ‘Thinking Cloud’, I tried to consider the shape of cloud computing and what it really means – that perhaps the cloud metaphor was being stretched a little too far. In the second part I regroup onto ground closer to my normal stomping ground, and consider what impact the changes
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The Thinking Cloud – Part I
In the beginning network architects created the cloud – an amorphous blob which sat between people and data-centres on every network diagram. But this analogy was little more than a pictogram embossed on the rather solid lid of a box marked “telecommunications” – inside this box was a rather solid, reliable and esoteric formation which
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