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
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
BDUK have carefully orchestrated a series of statements and comment to suggest that the EU will approve, albeit with small changes, the state funding issues surrounding the £530m+ spending to enhance broadband in the UK. Wales will benefit from this funding to the tune of £50m+. It is easy to criticise the funding, but the
“We had an opportunity to shape the economic and digital future of Wales, but we are about to squander it on the largest white elephant in town: More speed improvements in areas that would have received funding anyway, but where it is desperately required, will continue to receive little or no interest. I’m simply disgusted,” said Richard Brown
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
Business leaders and MPs have united today to condemn the Ofcom response to the ‘upto’ charges for ‘upto’ broadband campaign being run by wispa Limited ( twitter hashtag #WUP2). Over 700 people have used the simple webform to email the regulator with the following message: Dear Ofcom I wish to gain your support for
After Tim Farron took the lead as an MP who believes that Ofcom have failed to ensure clarity and transparency in the charges for broadband services in the UK, by backing the wispa Limited ‘upto’ charges for ‘upto’ broadband campaign, three more MPs have declared their support despite Ofcom doing their level best to ignore
wispa Limited are issuing a calculation regarding the true cost of a lack of rural broadband to the Welsh economy and population. The calculated cost to a household is £3769.20 per year. Assuming just C400k households in Wales are affected this is a cost to Welsh residents of £1,507,680,000 This calculation takes no account of