Rob’s Digital Life

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A hard day at the office

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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 to a number of open market initiatives with Ofcom, the full
details of which will be published next week, before going [...]

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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 I’ve just been reading an electronic version of Business week using zinio, and it’s being [...]

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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 a common failure or because my phones get a real work out. I’ve opted for the [...]

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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 using existing 2G spectrum holdings in the 850MHz,
1800MHz and 1900MHz bands.
That’s the promise of Huawei Technologies and [...]

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

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

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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 getting in as much cycling as possible.
The world of cycling is as geeky as computers, [...]

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..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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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 the performance of ADSL and was the most
suitable platform yet for allowing telecom operators to deploy HDTV and
other [...]

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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 a member of the team talking about how only the UK and Nordics had sorted out the regulatory [...]

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

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