TechNet put broadband in the US
Posted by Simon Perry on 20 January 2002 | Tagged as: Business
A lobby of technology companies in the US, TechNet are ramping up their campaign to make BB ubiquitous.
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Oftel push BT to unbundle
Posted by Simon Perry on 20 January 2002 | Tagged as: Business
It appears that the UK telco regulator, Oftel is actually starting to take some actions to ‘encourage’ the roll-out of BB in the UK by forcing BT to lower some of it’s LLU (Local Loop Unbundling) related charges. I’m not clear if the two reductions mentioned will have any meaningful impact of end-user pricing but I am sure the reduction in connection and rental charges would, sadly Oftel will not take any action on this until a ’separate analysis of competition in the relevant market’ has been conducted.
No money from UK Gov for broadband
Posted by Simon Perry on 17 January 2002 | Tagged as: Business
Douglas Alexander the UK ‘ecommerce’ minister has stated that Broadband is ‘private sector’ affair. From this it’s quite clear that the government delegation that went to Korea recently didn’t learn a great deal, especially not when it comes to putting their hand in their pocket. Let’s hope this isn’t the start of a withdrawal for support for broadband, after they recent actions had looks so promising …
UK minister catches on to South Korea
Posted by Simon Perry on 10 January 2002 | Tagged as: Business
It appears encouraging that UK government minister Patricia Hewitt wants to use South Korea as a guide for how BB access might work in the UK - given they now have around eight million users.
Film companies start to worry about the Napster-affect
Posted by Simon Perry on 10 January 2002 | Tagged as: Business
Group of film companies looks to head off Napster-like video services. A top technologist at Fox Studios proposed the technique as a video flag that both movie makers and consumer electronics companies could adopt.
BT still unclear on them broadcasting
Posted by Simon Perry on 10 January 2002 | Tagged as: Business
Will they, won’t they. BT’s appearing to daily charge of mind on if it will become a broadcaster. Yesterday Bland (BT Chairman) said no, not at the moment.
Centrica buys iomart broadband operations
Posted by Simon Perry on 9 January 2002 | Tagged as: Business
UK - Centrica buys iomart broadband operations. Unclear from the report the number of users, but I image they must be pretty low.
BT talk further about broadcasting
Posted by Simon Perry on 7 January 2002 | Tagged as: Business
Further discussion about BT’s long discussed plans to possibly move into broadcast.
More possible consolidation in Korea telco’s
Posted by Simon Perry on 7 January 2002 | Tagged as: Business
Possible further consolidation of the telco market in Korea.
Sony make a power play to control the OS for BB connected Home Appliances
Posted by Simon Perry on 7 January 2002 | Tagged as: Business
Sony have made many different alliances with many different parties to ensure they don’t miss the boat and now appear to have learnt all they need to create their own OS. link
