Regulations, Technology Neutrality and Technical Standards
I have always been a passionate believer in common technical standards for our public telecommunications networks. I am not the first to press the cause of public standards. In 1215 the barons of England forced on the wicked King John a clause on standards in the Magna Carta – only in those days it was not proprietary technologies but proprietary weights and measures short changing the masses.
Read more →The Renaissance of UK’s mobile radio industry but not just yet…
There was a time when Europe was in the forefront of global mobile radio developments and around 1989 a lot of the new ideas were coming out of UK, for example Personal Communications Networks and the first country to exploit the 1800 MHz frequency spectrum for mobile radio. Today if you want to find the leading edge of mobile radio you are likely to look elsewhere. The camera phone came out of Japan, mobile TV out of South Korea and the i-phone out of the USA.
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