'Digital Britain'? More like a cruel psychology experiment if you ask me
There is no such thing as broadband in Britain. The entire industry is a sham, an illusion, a massive psychological experiment designed to illustrate the effect of chronic neglect on a nation's psyche....
View ArticleBroadband Britain could have been so different – but then I woke up
This afternoon I fell asleep at my laptop and inhaled the combined fumes from thousands of hours of KitKats, sandwiches eaten at my desk and human skin (mine, I presume). The effect was like having...
View ArticleBroadband: the Finns are putting us to shame
Is broadband a human right? The Finnish government thinks so. From today, all Finns have the right to at least a one megabit-per-second internet connection. That's not staggeringly fast. The UK average...
View ArticleBroadband Britain is in crisis and it's shameful
It should be clear by now that 'broadband Britain' is in crisis. The recent study that found that the UK is falling behind other countries just confirms what has long been obvious. Akamai, the digital...
View ArticleThe internet is vital to Britain, which is why we need better broadband
The internet makes up 7.2 per cent of Britain's GDP and, if it was an economic sector, it would be Britain's fifth largest, according to a report compiled by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) for Google....
View Article4G mobile auction is about money for the Government, not data for the people
The scramble to snap up radio wavelengths to run a 4G mobile phone network begins. More than £20bn went to the Treasury when the 3G spectrum was sold in 2000, so there must be some government...
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