Interesting article in this week’s Sunday Times detailing a high number of compromised computers ostensibly controlled and monitored by the Chinese Government. What is fascinating from my perspective is the fact that…
Another trial BT?
BT recently announced details on their FTTC (Fibre to the Cabinet) trial that they are planning across the UK. They are looking to enable roughly 0.035% of the available cabinets with this…
What’s in a brand?
Company branding has always held a level of interest for me and when running your own business something that needs direction right from the beginning. I believe it evokes strong emotion and…
Financial Times
I had my profile picture on the back of the Money section on the weekend with some words of wisdom. I had not read the weekend version before, being more of a…
Free. A step too far?
Carphone Warehouse are a little upset at the moment that Openreach has been given the green light by Ofcom to raise prices to cover increasing infrastructure costs and develop faster services. This…
Tiscali hits the buffers
Interesting developments going on at Tiscali. With shares suspended and talks at an end with Sky, the company is currently worth about €100m. With debts of over €500m they are having big…
Video is finally here
The video-presence suite is now up and running. There are a few final adjustments to make in terms of optimising connectivity and aspect ratios of the cameras but for a first attempt…
Live the good life in Austria
I have just got back from a long weekend in Austria enjoying some of the best snow in 20 years. We had many inches fall each day contributing to the couple of…
Health and safety nonsense
I heard the other day that when we had the big snow fall, the local Tesco didn’t clear any of it up outside their store or in the car park. Apparently they…
How do you backup 99.99% uptime?
One concern I have had with the telecoms industry while running Fluidata has been around Service Level Agreements (SLA). Business customers demand that services stay up and provide their business with connectivity…
That’s not my responsibility – not the entrepreneur ethos
I am always interested in the differences between someone who is a CEO of a company and someone who is an Entrepreneur/Founder. To the untrained eye they are one of the same,…
Work with your customers, not against them
It is interesting how difficult large telecom carriers make it to do business with them. The likes of BT are inherently difficult to deal with but also smaller carriers such as NTL…
Where will 21CN go?
At a recent partner meeting with Cable & Wireless conversation turned to BT’s ongoing 21CN rollout. This multibillion pound investment by BT seems to be floundering especially when it comes to converting…
3-Years the industry norm?
After working in the telecoms industry for a number of years I have always been interested in why on the whole it has a bad reputation. Not necessarily as poor as…
Something to work for
I have written before about my desire for a Bugatti but Audi have just put a spanner in the works with their new R8 coupe with Lamborghini’s V10 engine. At a shave…