ISPs struggle with ADSL2+ rollout News from the trenches is that BT wholesale (who supply ISPs in the UK with DSL access) has delayed activation for 440 exchanges across the...
Time to start again My fascination of cars doesn’t stop just at the metal on the road but also the industry as a whole and the relationships between the...
Invest for gold The great success of Britian in the Olympics got me thinking as to why it has taken a century for us to up our game...
Reactive or Proactive? It has bothered me for a while that the telecoms industry on the whole is reactive rather than being proactive. This is true for product...
Super Tax for the rich? I read in the Sunday Times this week that the government are putting serious thought to bringing in legislation to increase tax to anyone earning...
A fibre city? I don’t want this blog to become a rant against BT but to back up my opinion further down the page as to why BT...
Hosted VoIP – why is not EVERY business using it? And another one! The site actually has some good other news items as well, I hadn’t heard of them before but great place for me...
Internet Contention You may be interested to read the following which was recently published by IT Pro Portal. Bit too long winded to post it here, so...
Consumer broadband in the UK – how good is it? The simple answer is nobody really knows, because everyone’s experiences are different. For every unhappy customer using a particular ISP I am sure there are...
Fibre to the home a reality? There has been recent news by BT that they will be investing £1.5 billion in developing a fibre network to bring speeds of 50 Mb/s...
Google flouting UK laws? I have officially fallen out of love with Google. Those geeky chaps from America are no longer friendly nice people they are in fact against...
What credit crunch? Ok petrol is more expensive and food is just silly money (well it is if you are too lazy to walk any further than Marks)...
Hard Top – what a difference! Now in keeping with my promise to make sure this isn't all about telecoms I have recently taken delivery of a new Mazda MX-5 (2.0...
What is 99.99%? Not much if you are BT! I am not sure if anyone else has noticed the recent barrage of advertisements by BT but looking at the small print it would appear...
A chance to voice my opinion I have been toying with the idea of starting some kind of blog for a while but it was only when I was included in...