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 and beat Europe. I think a lot…
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…
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 more than £250,000 per year. Personally I…
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…
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 to put the more in-depth comment pieces.
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 one for lunchtime!
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 at least ten who are happy or…
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 or 100 Mb/s to the home (FTTH).…
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 British business and our laws. It is…
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) but I really can not yet see…
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 Sport RC for those who like detail!).…
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 to be somewhat misleading. Essentially it is…
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 Mark Samuels’ blog from Computing (http://knowledge.computing.co.uk/) that…