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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...
Piers Daniell on August 29, 2008
Piers Daniell 2008-08-29T04:11:15+00:00
Motoring

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...
Piers Daniell on August 26, 2008
Piers Daniell 2008-08-26T05:12:32+00:00
General

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...
Piers Daniell on August 26, 2008
Piers Daniell 2008-08-26T03:36:04+00:00
Internet

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...
Piers Daniell on August 22, 2008
Piers Daniell 2008-08-22T06:08:08+00:00
General

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...
Piers Daniell on August 20, 2008
Piers Daniell 2008-08-20T05:08:02+00:00
Internet

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...
Piers Daniell on August 13, 2008
Piers Daniell 2008-08-13T03:23:25+00:00
Internet

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...
Piers Daniell on August 7, 2008
Piers Daniell 2008-08-07T14:30:39+00:00
Internet

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...
Piers Daniell on August 7, 2008
Piers Daniell 2008-08-07T14:26:17+00:00
Internet

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...
Piers Daniell on August 7, 2008
Piers Daniell 2008-08-07T12:40:23+00:00
Internet

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...
Piers Daniell on August 6, 2008
Piers Daniell 2008-08-06T12:38:41+00:00
Internet

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...
Piers Daniell on August 1, 2008
Piers Daniell 2008-08-01T10:00:20+00:00
Business

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)...
Piers Daniell on August 1, 2008
Piers Daniell 2008-08-01T04:14:10+00:00
Motoring

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...
Piers Daniell on July 31, 2008
Piers Daniell 2008-07-31T13:04:06+00:00
Internet

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...
Piers Daniell on July 31, 2008
Piers Daniell 2008-07-31T11:05:41+00:00
General

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...
Piers Daniell on July 31, 2008
Piers Daniell 2008-07-31T11:01:25+00:00

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