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Category Archives: digitalbritain
Friday Afternoon Silliness: Pigeon Race
Remember Winston the carrier pigeon, who carried a 4GB data stick 60 miles across South Africa in a race against ADSL service from the country’s biggest internet provider, Telkom? Now meet Margaret. Continue reading
Fibre Tax Review Déjà Vu
The opponents of business rates on fibre must feel like Sisyphus – the mythological Greek figure compelled to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and condemned to repeat this exercise throughout eternity. Continue reading
Broadband Definitions in Disarray
What is broadband? Governments around the world are developing multi-billion dolllar plans to deliver broadband infrastructure that will lead to social and economic development, and yet nobody agrees on what broadband is. Frankly, I’m shocked. Continue reading
Taxing times for UK broadband
Business rates for fibre are a political minefield here in the UK. I don’t normally like venturing into minefields, but feel that the latest developments shouldn’t pass without comment. Continue reading
Benoît on the FTTH Benefit Compendium
Why fibre? It’s a fundamental question for proponents of fibre-to-the-home, but it’s difficult to answer concisely or even clearly because the answer varies dramatically depending on where you reside in the FTTH ecosystem. Continue reading
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7 things I learned in Lisbon
Having just returned from the FTTH Conference in Lisbon, I thought I’d jot down my thoughts while they’re still fresh in my mind. Continue reading
Broadband Lite? No thanks!
Does the expanding use of social media provide a good reason to deliver better broadband networks? Yes, says Eric Qualman, author of Socialnomics, and keynote speaker at the FTTH Conference in Lisbon. Continue reading
NGA in the UK: the patchwork quilt
Although Britain was a leader in first-generation broadband, we’re definitely late to the party when it comes to next-generation access (NGA). But the transition to fibre access networks has finally begun, and one image particularly brings this message home to me. Continue reading
Dutch broadband speeds don’t measure up
The Netherlands may be one of Europe’s leading broadband nations, but it’s suffering from a familiar problem – the actual broadband speeds received by consumers are significantly lower than advertised. A study carried out by Telecompaper in partnership with iPing … Continue reading
Public money and broadband in France
NEXTGEN09, LEEDS — What’s the best way for local authorities to encourage the roll out of next-generation broadband without distorting competition? The French experience,
recounted by Gabrielle Gauthey, senior vice-president for public affairs at Alcatel-Lucent, seems to suggest that investing in backhaul is the right way to go. Continue reading
