Carphone Warehouse are a little upset at the moment that Openreach has been given the green light by Ofcom to raise prices to cover increasing infrastructure costs and develop faster services. This…
Tiscali hits the buffers
Interesting developments going on at Tiscali. With shares suspended and talks at an end with Sky, the company is currently worth about €100m. With debts of over €500m they are having big…
Video is finally here
The video-presence suite is now up and running. There are a few final adjustments to make in terms of optimising connectivity and aspect ratios of the cameras but for a first attempt…
Health and safety nonsense
I heard the other day that when we had the big snow fall, the local Tesco didn’t clear any of it up outside their store or in the car park. Apparently they…
How do you backup 99.99% uptime?
One concern I have had with the telecoms industry while running Fluidata has been around Service Level Agreements (SLA). Business customers demand that services stay up and provide their business with connectivity…
That’s not my responsibility – not the entrepreneur ethos
I am always interested in the differences between someone who is a CEO of a company and someone who is an Entrepreneur/Founder. To the untrained eye they are one of the same,…
Work with your customers, not against them
It is interesting how difficult large telecom carriers make it to do business with them. The likes of BT are inherently difficult to deal with but also smaller carriers such as NTL…
Where will 21CN go?
At a recent partner meeting with Cable & Wireless conversation turned to BT’s ongoing 21CN rollout. This multibillion pound investment by BT seems to be floundering especially when it comes to converting…
3-Years the industry norm?
After working in the telecoms industry for a number of years I have always been interested in why on the whole it has a bad reputation. Not necessarily as poor as…
Something to work for
I have written before about my desire for a Bugatti but Audi have just put a spanner in the works with their new R8 coupe with Lamborghini’s V10 engine. At a shave…
Another thing about Digital Britain…
Article in Computer Weekly this week which I contributed a sound bite to. Nothing major just highlighting the fact that the government report fails to mention anything about upload speed. As a…
Beat climate change and get a 4×4
London suffered from one of the worst snow storms in a decade yesterday and only now are we slowly getting back to normal. Having lived in the countryside all my life I…
How to fix Digital Britain
Digital Britain has been released today. Not much there to help connectivity for business, the government seems to think it is important to offer faster speeds for those who share videos and…
Let there be light
On the anniversary of us moving into our offices in London Bridge I note that I have suffered from a single migraine while working in the office. When we converted the space…
Three’s a crowd?
I am interested in the high publicity that the third runway at Heathrow is getting, especially as I don’t have any strong opinions one way or the other. However I don’t understand…