News Archive
Newport no longer to be part of Wales’ 4%
Brilliant news today in the Autumn statement, with Newport to be one of 12 smaller cities to share £50m superfast broadband funding. Well, almost brilliant news. Recently the Welsh Government announced that the NextGen deal with BT would deliver 20Mbps+ speeds to 96% of Wales residents. Are we seriously to believe that Newport was not
Hey BDUK, how come….
I had a really interesting email over the weekend, which asked some really simple questions. The email seems to be in response to wispa Limited creating ALLc (a talent pool of broadband and communications experts to help anyone who wants to achieve superfast broadband in their area/company). Essentially, the person sending the email suggests that engaging ALLc
Is it too late for Maria Miller to make BDUK successful?
Maria Miller replaced the universally disliked Jeremy Hunt as head of BDUK. To begin with, most of us were extremely sceptical about her appointment, not least of all her utter lack of social interaction (not even a Twitter account). She made an effort to turn this around though, and opened a Twitter account, and even
Ofcom are at it again
Ofcom’s most recent Press Release has been picked up by Duncan Heaney at BroadbandChoices. Apparently 99% of all the premises in the UK are now covered by a 3G signal, with some 77% being able to get a signal from all 3G providers. Whoop! Well, no. Not really. Sadly, this is another example of how
Just plough on, or be brave and change BDUK?
This article attracted some interesting comments from various quarters. Ian Lucas (MP for Wrexham) knows what it is like to have a Ward that desperately needs to get it’s broadband sorted out – the city is not too bad, but the outlying areas are patchy at best when it comes to decent broadband speeds. Rick Waghorn (founder
Is the BDUK about to change?
BDUK has come under a great deal of scrutiny and criticism (not least of all from wispa Limited), primarily because they way that it has been constructed appears to utterly fail to meet the objectives of the UK. Seems that the EU continue to have issues with the way that the sub-division of DCMS intends
30% of UK lack basic online skills
Confidence in BDUK is critical
A Twitter conversation with Andrew from ThinkBroadband got me to thinking this morning. The conversation was predominantly around USC (universal service commitment) of 2Mbps. Essentially, this was something that BDUK laid out as a target for 2012 (recently moved to 2015) and was prompted by an Ian Grant EIU article he wrote (see article HERE). The Economist Intelligence