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
EE (Everything Everywhere) have announced that on the 30th October their 4G network goes live. Which is nice for those prepared for the pleasure of paying the monopoly style charges that the operator wants (together with nice lock in periods of 18mths+) Naturally, the misinformed, under informed and MPs are hailing this as a great move
Various credits are given to various people who supposedly coined this (or a similar phrase), but today we’ll give credit for it to no one in particular as it only exists to give a beginning to this article (although if you are desperate to buy stickers, click the link and part with £6.49!) As a
The announcement today is a little unclear about where the money for broadband is going to come from in Scotland (a mix of Local Gov and Private Sector is all the announcement suggests), but it’s clear that the Scottish Government has woken up to the importance of broadband to the economy. £500m is hardly
It’s possible that the 720 staff at Ofcom (Media and Telecommunications regulator) are underpaid. The wages bill for Ofcom annually is around £48m annually. The averaged salary for an Ofcom employee is around £67k The Chairman is paid around £188k a year. Some of the work that the regulator does in the Media is exemplary.
Clayton Hirst at Ofcom is obviously interested in our Twitter comments, and sent this email today: Richard I see that you’ve been making some comments about Ofcom’s pension scheme, giving the impression that we have a final salary pension scheme in operation. The reality is somewhat different: At Ofcom’s inception (in 2003) we
It is not particularly difficult to find comments that we have made about broadband, on the internet. We make no secret of the fact that: The regulator (Ofcom) is not regulating The Gov have woefully inadequate targets for our future £830m is going to be wasted by BDUK BT could do more, but why should