The UK needs Power!

With talk of Microsoft and Google investing in new datacentres for hosted applications I am concerned with necessary power upgrade that is required for the national grid. With datacentres consuming apparently more…

Customer Feedback

Nice to see customer’s discussing your company’s offering online – positive and negative comments. http://www.josephjburns.com/2008/04/30/fluidata-the-cheaper-alternative-to-leased-lines As with all services customer feedback is so important as they use the service day in, day…

Cisco 7604

Fluidata  to help keep the internet ticking over. Well this is a picture of one of our new Cisco 7604 routers which will be brought online in the next few weeks across…

Are businesses mad?

This week sees the launch of BT’s new promotion for businesses. Sign up today and get a free mobile dongle so you can browse the internet when not in the office! It…

Less is definitely more

One of our most interesting products to be developed this year at Fluidata has been the VOX 2.0 service. For the past 18-months Fluidata has been using the Telefonica O2 network for…

Fibre to the home

In one of my previous comments I talk about the report the BSG recently published regarding fibre to the home will cost £28bn. Well to follow up the report the BSG held…

Fibre will cost £28.8 bn

Interesting report out from Broadband Stakeholder Group which Fluidata has been a member of since 2004. Basically putting into context the investment BT has earmarked for fibre deployment. BT has said they…

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 development, support and network investment and it…

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 wont deliver on the fibre network you…