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 …

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.

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.

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.

UK – Centrica buys iomart broadband operations. Unclear from the report the number of users, but I image they must be pretty low.

Further discussion about BT’s long discussed plans to possibly move into broadcast.

Possible further consolidation of the telco market in Korea.

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

At last Oftel announce that the UK needs stong competition to create a thriving BB market. The new thought is to route traffic though the BT network, rather than the competitiors having to buy BT wholesale products or install their own kit in exchanges. Oftel are saying this may happen by the summer.

Funded by the European Regional Development Fund and South West Regional Development Agency, Cornwall will benefit from 33,000 ADSL connections