With BT currently suffering a lot of negative publicity in the last two days with two major outages caused by power issues in two London datacentres, it is a timely reminder that…
Back to the floor
One of my favourite programs was ‘Back to the Floor’ where owners and high level executives went back to the grass roots of their business to work with staff and customers to…
It is easy to tick boxes
In a letter in the Financial Times this week SKY, Vodafone and TalkTalk signed a letter asking Ofcom, the Competition and Markets Authority to investigate BT for their poor delivery of internet…
A truly separate Openreach
The ongoing discussion of Openreach and BT Wholesale combining into one entity seems to be dividing opinion among the industry. My personal view is one that is shared with TalkTalk’s Dido Harding,…
The phone line is dead. Should someone tell BT?
One interesting ‘in the small print’ pieces about BT’s fibre to the premises (FTTP) technology is that if you don’t also have a BT copper phone line then the rental for the…
The Victorians would be appalled by BT’s short-sighted behaviour
I recently completed on a new flat in London. Nothing too fancy, just somewhere I can lay my head during the week, and maybe where I can enjoy some of this property…
BT works hard to maintain their bullyboy reputation
For the past few weeks the news has been full of reports with regards to rural broadband and the Broadband Delivery group (BDUK) which was setup by government to help feed funds…
Gigaclear continues to plug away
A lot of focus recently has been on the government funding currently being awarded to BT to deliver high speed broadband services to the majority of the country. However the realisation that…
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 significant especially when compared to the small…
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 it is somewhat of a dark art,…
Royal Mail shouldn’t be too concerned, take a look at BT
Interesting news this week about TNT’s new delivery service which is being run by TNT Post and how it will affect Royal Mail. It is launching in the west of London to…
Next Generation Networks
I spent an enjoyable morning yesterday at the Next Gen conference held in Bristol. I was actually talking in one of the workshops with regards to our network aggregation platform. This initiative…
True fibre to the home
I have already banged the drum about the likes of BT and Virgin selling their broadband products as ‘fibre to the home’, when the cable coming into the home, is in fact…
Publicity stunt or new network?
There are some interesting developments in the world of Rural Broadband with Fujitsu this week announcing its new consortium with Virgin, TalkTalk and Cisco to deploy rural fibre to the premises (FTTP).…
Rural connectivity is used as a lever
There was an interesting turn of events this week with an open letter being sent to Ed Vaizey, Communications Minister, from a number of infrastructure carriers demanding for lower costs on BT’s…