Monthly Archives: January 2005

Bottleneck Blowout

I was only talking the other day whilst walking around Milan that Cable companies have a jump over other DSL providers as they have a different type of cable to the end user, which allows a greater bandwidth to be … Continue reading

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Euro Voip Blog

I’ve just stumbled onto this blog Eurovoip There’s no ‘about me’ or ‘background’ so we don’t know who’s behind the blog…shame. Update: and no RSS

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Level 3 cut’s workforce

Level 3 Communications announced that its operating subsidiaries will initiate a work force reduction of approximately 500 to 600 employees. [via VoIP Watch]

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VoIP will hit Euro telcos hardest

Andy picks up this story about how European telco’s will be hardest hit in the VoIP battle ground.European operators relatively highly exposed because calling and roaming rates, as well as the share of roaming calls, is higher, and local calls … Continue reading

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Back from Milan

Flew back into Birmingham yesterday afternoon after two nights. The Hotel (Starhotels Rosa) had wireless operated by SwissCom, the hotel btw was right nest to the Duomo. We had a great meeting and the team really are working towards a … Continue reading

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Column Seven on VoWi-Fi

Link: EuroTelcoblog. I read “The Business” column seven peice too. I thought it was OK. BTW it was the first time I bought “The Business” and I enjoyed it, it had more meaty business news than the business section of … Continue reading

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Vonage UK

If Naked DSL ever takes off here in the UK, that and Vonage could be a real treat. [Vonage UK arrives]

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The Post office becomes a residential Telco

The PO is becoming a telco, which is ironic as it used to be the GPO which included both post and telecoms prior to BT was split out from it about 20 years ago.

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Scoble Phone

I think I’m going to get a scoble phone. My contract with Orange comes to an end on the 11th. But I may just buy one of eBay, they’re about 140ukp. I’m looking for a device that’s more than a … Continue reading

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Milan

I’m off to Milan, Italy, on Tuesday of next week. I’m dragging all my (North, West, Iberia, Central and Nordic, South is already there!) regional managers to Milan to discuss compliance and how we ensure that our business meets our … Continue reading

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Landscape of the telecoms market place

I’ve been asked to present to all the big chiefs in networking in EMEA on the Telco market place at the beginning of Feb.  Should be good fun, all our sales and outsourcing exec’s and VP’s will be there and … Continue reading

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podcast hiss

for my last trip to madrid, I dumped a bunch of podcasts onto my Tungsten T3 and tried to listen to them during the flight, but there was this huge hissing noise in the backgroung which made it very difficult … Continue reading

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Family tech Support

It’s great to hear I’m not the only person who get’s this over the christmas holidays..Ross posts his Family Tech support guide here. Get ‘em a Mac with OS X on it Get ‘em broadband: it’s fast and nearly always … Continue reading

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Gmail

POP and forwarding has come to my Gmail account, so I’ve re-jigged my email setup.

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Google Ads

I looked at Google ads a while back and couldn’t see a way of inserting the code, but here’s how to do it.

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