Monthly Archives: June 2005

Fleet Review

IMG_1558 Originally uploaded by Rob Evans. A hard day at the office

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BT strikes deal with Ofcom over future of UK telecoms

BT will not be broken up by Ofcom, and the regulator will instead use the Enterprise Act and the threat of High Court action against BT if it deems the company is discriminating against its rivals.   BT has agreed … Continue reading

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Business Week

Interesting US and European slants on the news, I’ve been reading a lot of european news papers obviously based in europe and they frequently talk about how Airbus and how well it’s doing and how badly Boeing is doing. But … Continue reading

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catch up

Works been a tad busy recently so it’s taking up even more time, leaving less time to do some other stuff. My SPV has gone back to HTC as the green handset button has stopped working, not sure if that’s … Continue reading

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Huawei throws a big spanner into the 3G works

This made me chuckle a little. Telecom operators across the world have spent billions of dollars securing the 2GHz spectrum they needed to launch 3G services. But now they may well find that they can launch exactly the same services … Continue reading

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New car

Our new car has turned up, photo’s on flickr.

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Events..just like buses

I hadn’t seen any events for a while then 3 come along at once…A helicopter trip around london, A trip to Henley and the tall ships race.

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kensington lock

Could kensignton go the same way as the     kryptonite bike locks…http://www.toool.nl/kensington623.wmv

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Bike

I’ve been doing a bit of buying of gadgets for my bike over the last week. I’ve got a weekend cycling planned for the end of July so I’ve been upgrading some of the older parts of my bike and … Continue reading

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Large firms demonstrate little loyalty to telecoms

..did they ever?…it’s down to price and the hassle of moving. If it’s a much lower price people will put up with the moving, if it’s not they won’t move..that’s not really loyalty. [via]

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VDSL2 gets ITU stamp of approval

After an intense 11 days of negotiation, an International Telecommunications Union committee has ratified the new VDSL2 standard, which promises considerably improved performance compared to ADSL platforms. The ITU said in a statement on Friday that VDSL2 offered ten times … Continue reading

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Top telecoms groups, EU square up over rules review

Europe’s top telecoms groups called on the European Commission on Tuesday to rethink fundamentally how it regulates the industry, but the Brussels executive suggested big change was unlikely. [via] This isn’t very good news. I read an email today from … Continue reading

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back in work

Back at work today. Catching up with the hundreds of emails.

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