Funding content, funding networks: what matters?
On 16 February we will be hosting an event for the UK Chapter of the International Institute of Communications. The event’s title is ‘Funding content, …
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Smart meters: intelligently connecting to a lower carbon future
I am awaiting with interest the response of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and Ofgem to their consultation on implementing smart metering in …
Cognitive radio: the road to mobile broadband delivery, or the path to anarchic interference?
For those who are not familiar with the term, cognitive radio (also sometimes described as white-space radio) describes a way of using radio spectrum in which …
UK telecoms policy moves government department as proposals for new Communications Act announced
In a week of Westminster resignations, with Andy Coulson accused of condoning mobile voicemail hacking and Ed Balls taking over as Chancellor you may be …
Mobile broadband event: net neutrality, mobile content, network capacity and handsets
Regular blog readers will know that I hosted a mobile data event for Cambridge Wireless yesterday. I found the event thought-provoking. For those on twitter, I attempted …
Vertical integration the industrial logic for M&A: Vivendi / SFR and Comcast / NBC Universal
My eye was caught last night by a story in the Financial Times this morning reporting analyst speculation that in the wake of the approvals of …
BT sets prices for passive access to ducts and poles
Before Christmas, this blog flagged that last-mile fibre access (also know as next generation access, or NGA) was a commercial and regulatory issue that would be high …
UK seeks views on principles of economic regulation
On 7 January the UK’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills published a ‘call for evidence’ relating to principles of economic regulation. As those who …
Broadband aid (do they know it’s Christmas)
Re-reading yesterday’s post, I hope it wasn’t too close to a law firm client update – that is not being the point of this blog. …
Net neutrality: religious or secular war?
Some years ago I was reading one of those very thought provoking articles in the end of year bumper edition of the Economist. The gist …