The IET challenges Jeremy Hunt to shake-up Communications regulation
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has challenged the Minister Jeremy Hunt to shake-up UK Communications Regulations. The IET challenge is both inciteful and timely. Without the government setting the necessary long term ambitions for the next generation of mobile networks … the UK may well finish up with some seriously underperforming mobile networks 7-10 years from now…and/or mobile data prices up in the stratosphere for any sort of decent mobile data access speeds.
Read more →Will Local TV prove fruitful for Hunt…
The UK Minister for Media Jeremy Hunt is a man with a mission…to kick start local TV in the UK. Has he got the timing right?
Read more →UK Mobile Radio Coverage – at a cross-roads!
The great digital dividend spectrum auction is fast approaching when the highly desirable spectrum at 800 MHz will be on offer to the mobile radio industry. It opens up a unique opportunity to improve rural coverage since 800 MHz is particularly well matched for this. But spectrum alone does not generate coverage and the other [...]
Read more →Middle East, Modern Communications and Chaos Theory
The political upheaval in the Middle East offer up a perfect metaphor for chaos theory and media have highlighted the role modern communications has played…what are the policy lessons?
Read more →The wrong sort of WiFi…
We are at one of those turning points in mobile network history regarding the future direction of super fast mobile broadband (delivered user speeds of 10 to 100 Mbits/s)…and that future is less likely to hinge on the mobile technology itself and more on the encryption model that gets attached to it.
Read more →Is Disaster Planning failing to keep up with communications technology?
Why, in an era when we have never been so rich in all the means of communications, have we seen three instances in the UK at the end of 2010 where a total breakdown in communications has occurred between major organisations and tens of thousands of their affected customers?
Read more →Decline and fall of UK Mobile Network Competition in 5 years?
My most recent study is pointing to the death of mobile network competition (as we’ve known it) within the next 5 years and the current regulatory framework is quite incapable of effectively dealing with this.
Read more →Low Intensity Cyber Wars against Google
One of the things that must worry ordinary users of the Internet is how some cyber attacks can be going on without us even realising it. I stumbled across one a few weeks ago which is affecting all of us who use Google for accurate and relevant search results.
Read more →The UK is falling behind Uzbekistan in terms of advanced Mobile Broadband Networks…!
How has it come to pass that Uzbekistan is now gong to have a more advanced mobile radio network sooner than the UK?
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