Monthly Archives: March 2005

one hour fifteen minutes ago

..I landed at Manchester having taken the 30 min flight from London, but I’m now safely at home checking out bloglines. I’d spent the day in Bedfont Lakes talking to yet another vendor (large pan european).

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Ebbers guilty of $11bn fraud

Bernie Ebbers, the former WorldCom chief executive, was found guilty on Tuesday of leading an $11bn accounting fraud that pushed the once high-flying telecommunications group into the largest bankruptcy in US history…..He faces more than 20 years in prison when … Continue reading

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the lack of MPLS NNI

This is an issue I came across the other day, a quick google brought up an explaniation.. "The service comes at a time when MPLS has become almost the de facto standard for advanced backbone networks. Despite its pervasiveness, carriers … Continue reading

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Telepocalypse by Martin Geddes: Details, details

Link: Telepocalypse by Martin Geddes: Details, details. Another great post by Martin, and it echo’s exaclty my thoughts around some of the Softphones I’ve seen. A recent version that I used also tried to mimick the look of a phone … Continue reading

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Weekend of gun violence shocks America

Weekend of gun violence shocks America ..hopefully it’ll shock you American’s reading this  into doing something about your dumb ass gun laws. I’ve got an 18 month old and this shocks the hell out of me. Sorry I’ll get back … Continue reading

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UK Telco

I had a meeting with the CEO and COO of a UK Telco today down in London. Very interesting meeting. It sounds like they have a great network, but we’ll see.

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test from flickr

Picture079_23Sep04 Originally uploaded by Rob Evans. This is a test of the picute post from flickr

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C&W cuts 10% more UK jobs

more bad news at C&W…C&W cuts 10% more UK jobs [via ft.com]

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BT buys Reuters’ arm for $175m

BT has signed a nice deal..it’s going to supply Reuters with all it’s networking needs for $3bn and it buy’s Radianz from Reuters for $175m..nice. [ via ft.com] So BT is still on the purchase trail.

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Qwest and MCI rumbles on..still

and it’s ssstttiiillll going on..[via Yahoo News]

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Nordics NOS meeting

I’m back home from Copenhagen, I flew SAS with a economy flex ticket, which the bumf tells me with give me wireless net access some time after March…I can’t wait to Skype people.."You’ll never guess what…i’m 30,000ft up on a … Continue reading

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13 hours

I’m at home this week for the grand total of 13 hours. I got in today at 4pm and I’m out again tomorrow morning at 5am. I think I’m working too hard.

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CEBIT and the Telecom Rebound

After three slow years, the world’s biggest tech and telecoms trade show CeBIT expects an increase in visitors again, as enthusiasm returns to an industry which showed in 2004 it can still generate stellar growth. [via Reuters.co.uk] Again that’s promising…but … Continue reading

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European telco’s doing OK

Both France Telecom (FT) and Deutsche Telekom (DT) feature in the news this week. DT has had it’s S&P rating improved following it’s recent moves to reduce it’s debts. FT is in the news as it’s joined the fray by … Continue reading

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ODCS woes part II

Jeremy Zawodny also wants an online calendar. Following on from the speculation, he’d really want’s google to do it.

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