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Everything should be made as simple as possible. . .
The debate about what’s going wrong with the broadband policy is becoming quite complex, messy and somewhat emotional. For me, the key policy of making the UK the best “superfast” (meaning > 24 Mbps) broadband market in Europe is the right one. Delivering that in tandem with the localism bill and while supporting SMEs couldn’t
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12p or a fifth-of-percent
The Broadband Stakeholder Group’s (BSG) Commercial, Operational and Technical Standards (COTS) working group has written to BDUK recommending that they find their way to supporting the development of framework to ensure retail service competition on next generation broadband networks. This comes about two years after the Digital Britain team at BIS declined a proposal to
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Why we should care about the US Internet “Kill switch” proposals
There is a proposal running through the US Senate at the moment which would give the President powers to shut-down critical internet infrastructure, the so called “kill switch”. Apart from any concerns at a distance we might have about free speech and rights, there is an equally big issue which may be more critical to our own homeland security.
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BT showing signs it’s worried about infrastructure competition
BT Wholesale’s Sally Davis was reported as warning the Government not to waste money on small rural broadband projects as a patchwork effect couldn’t possibly work (ISP Review article here). There is perhaps some irony in the example she gives – of the early railways not agreeing standards so they couldn’t work together, given that
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The hub of the argument
At the JON Exchange, we’re very excited by the Government’s announced strategy for superfast broadband today. The feeling that network operators would be used by Government as pawns to bargain with BT again I think is receding; confidence among network operators and builders that its safe to invest should be rising; and JON Exchange is
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How successful would Finland’s broadband policy be here?
At the NextGen Road-show event in Edinburgh this week, Professor Michael Fourman gave a fascinating talk on the special challenges for delivering broadband in Scotland. At the heart of his work were some maps which very effectively demonstrated the impact the Finnish Government’s broadband policy might have on some of the more remote areas of
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Ambition is the new agenda
Last Thursday I attended the Government’s Industry Day where they laid out their key policy framework and work programme for broadband and the internet. If you hung around just long enough to hear Jeremy Hunt, Ed Vaizey and Caroline Spelman speak, and with only one ear on what was being said while you rushed to
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