Tag Archives: Mobile Broadband

NGA – the Open Closed Contest

Yesterday’s BSG COTS Steering Group meeting made some excellent progress in terms of firming up the definition of what is inside and outside scope for the overall COTS programme.
Something that was apparent as regards NGA is that we can see emerging a bipolarity between open access infrastructure with clear separation between access and services on [...]

Broadband Poll Tax

The injustice of the £6 per line annual broadband tax as proposed in Lord Carter’s Digital Britain Report is that it is applied to copper fixed line rental, a.k.a. dial tone, rather than to broadband itself.
As well as being regressive and a most unwelcome extra burden in the currently depressed UK Economy, this taxation is [...]