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Gigabit? Who needs it?
Recently two things got me thinking a little: One of my main PC’s needed a little maintenance I visited the launch of Gigaclear’s Appleton network in Oxfordshire My main Windows PC developed a memory fault and I needed to get a little support from Yoyotech, the excellent people who made it for me. When I got
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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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Time well spent looking down the drain
I’ve just had one of those days you feel good about. So often I tend to get involved in broadband projects at the very beginning and my work is done before a single spade breaks earth – in some cases its been as long as three or four years between my involvement and anybody actually receiving a
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Where’s the demand for “superfast” broadband?
As we start to debate what “superfast” might mean in a broadband context, too often people are returning to the bigger “why” questions: Why do we need to invest at all? where’s the demand? The technology sector is an example of where Saye’s economic principles tend to trump Adam Smith; where intelligent supply tend’s to
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Boosting the funnel
It was reported this week that a group of British scientists at Southampton University have developed a technique for keeping the light in fibre-optic cables nice and tidy and in sync. I thought I’d write a short blog on it because the importance of the discovery seems have been missed by some commentators. For my purposes,
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