Poet turns Plumber – for a day
Faced with the urgent need to boost digital access from the office at the end of the garden (also known as the Groupe Intellex international HQ) we made the decision to use optical fibre. DIY skills...
View ArticleNot symmetric, not fast, not super, not fibre – and not relevant.
The ‘Cities-are-Supreme’ brigade gathered for the RSA’s Cities Growth Commission launch yesterday. They seemed oddly united in their view that rural dwellers should accept relative broadband poverty...
View ArticleAnd the last word goes to – Vodafone and a British Engineer – for Fibre
FTTH Council Europe today honoured both Vodafone and British-educated Sir Charles Kao for their great achievements in fibre. Full story here
View ArticleThis Box Contains Up To Ten Eggs
[This script was written in preparation for a UK conference on digitally-enabled economic development. This version does not include presentation guidelines and other stage directions] This box...
View ArticleCapturing the [broadband] Moment
Historical significance is rarely bestowed quickly – it usually takes time and needs a broader view than can be mustered by those clustered close to events. ‘The way I look at it’ is but one...
View ArticleA Certain Uncertainty
Time and again in recent weeks the pleas from European business leaders (and particularly here in the UK) for an end to uncertainty – or at least less of a policy vacuum – might have seemed quite the...
View ArticleBlowing towards Thrushgill – East of Lancaster
[‘From our own correspondent’ – visiting rural Lancashire to get a feel for great digital design] Place your finger on the map at Lancaster and then move it across to the East until you find a large...
View ArticleFibre Mobile
Describing Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) as Fibre Broadband (more truthfully ‘phoneline broadband’ on shorter lines) has led to (a) great confusion for consumers and businesses and (b) huge...
View ArticleAnd The NextGen Digital Challenge 2017 Winners Are . . .
And the Winners are . . . [Westminster, 23rd October 2017] Announcing the results of the UK’s 7th annual NextGen Digital Challenge Awards, Iain Stewart MP (Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group...
View ArticleOne Week Underground in Valencia
Living in a cave – one of many on the edge of Valencia that have been homes for hundreds of years – was not the obvious choice for a visitor to an ultra-high-tech conference. Then again, something...
View ArticleFTTH Council Europe releases 2020 edition of pan-Europe Full Fibre league
The new FTTH/B ‘panorama’ is based on September 2019 data collected via network providers and regulators in each country. Our full report – including a graphic of the table – can be found via ‘Plodding...
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