2e2 on the buffers

With the news the other week that 2e2 the disti, sorry box shifter, no I mean ‘ICT Lifecycle Services Provider’ has hit administration it has...

The future? Augmented Reality and 3D printing apparently.

Last week I had the pleasure of joining a number of contemporaries from the industry at the Innovation and Growth seminar hosted by Royal Bank...

The next generation isn’t necessarily better

With today being the day that Everything Everywhere has launched their 4G services in the UK (albeit it a handful of cities) I have decided...

Data to take over Voice

Interesting piece in the FT today on the future of the mobile network operators and how over the next five years it is expected that...

IPv4 hanging in there

After many false starts it looks like IPv4 is finally exhausting with RIPE today issuing notice that they now have 1 months’ worth of IPv4...

Cynicism turns to Optimism

With the Olympics truly underway we can see that while we have experienced overall growth of traffic over our network as people tune in using...

So far so normal

With the Olympics in full swing everything seems to be rather normal. This of course is a good thing but with months of meetings and...

New network starts to take shape

A few months ago we announced to much fanfare that we were investing nearly £2.5m into new hardware across our network. Last week saw the...

Don’t put that there

As I have mentioned before the sight of one of BT’s new street cabinets, used in the delivery of Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC), is...

The power of cloud

With all the talk of cloud I think it is easy to get swept up in the enthusiasm for it with little consideration for those...

When will our industry learn?

Interesting but not exactly unexpected news that BT and TalkTalk are not advising customers correctly on what their broadband speeds might be post installation. Obviously...

BT delivers some innovation at long last

With all the talk of BT’s Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) service, and the incorrect advertising of providing homes and businesses with ‘fibre internet’, their...

How much?!

I was intrigued with the news that Facebook has valued and bought a company at a $1bn valuation when it has only 13 staff and...

Support to ISPs will surely rocket?

I had an interesting lunch with a supplier last week and we got talking about the advances in televisions and that now it is common...

Djokovic vs Murray burns network traffic

With the Olympics just around the corner network providers have been worried about the potential increase in traffic as more of the games will be...