Recently the B4RN (Broadband for Rural North) project has had a ton of Press (thanks in no small part to one @ruskin147). Their website had around 35k visits on the day that a short item was shown on BBC Breakfast TV, and they have been inundated with emails from well wishers and others who want
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Go ON UK, a charity chaired by the UK digital champion Martha Lane Fox, has released it’s findings that a colossal number in the UK lack basic skills to get online. 16m is approximately 25% of the population of the UK or closer to 30% of the adult population. When we learn to drive a car, the
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Norman Bates was responsible for suggesting that “We all go a little mad sometimes” in the cult horror film Pyscho. On this All Hallow’s Eve I found myself looking for a horror based theme as an excuse to jump onto the ghouls and goblins bandwagon to talk about broadband in the UK. The shame of
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It is not much of a secret that we are adamant that our Government’s aspirations for broadband are pretty woeful. We’ve made little secret that we think that the manner in which the DCMS (Department for Culture Media and Sport) has set up the 10man team at BDUK to dole out £830m is pretty useless
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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
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As we have been unable to get DCMS, or BDUK to act appropriately with our (your) funding, and as we believe that the funding may not be legal, we have had no choice but to issue the following document today (via email – hard copy in post): Dear sir(s) BDUK Funding of BT As it
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In March 2012 wispa Limited published the whitepaper Broadband UK – Ubiquitous, superfast (100Mbps+) delivery is achievable which contains a great deal of practical policy changes that the Government could make in order to assure the UK a place in the forthcoming Data Revolution. Yesterday, Akamai released their ‘State of the Internet‘ quarterly briefing. The
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