Posts Tagged ‘broadband’
My Galaxy Tab came from the US, and is AT&T branded. As soon as I got it I installed a stock firmware as I didn’t want to live with the various restrictions AT&T had imposed (and I also wanted to use a UK data plan). For my holiday in the US I wanted to get […]
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Tags: android, APN, AT&T, broadband, Galaxy Tab, tablet, unlocked
It seems that our politicians are easily fooled by the telecos and their regulatory capture. Just yesterday the UK’s Culture minister Ed Vaizey announced his support for a ‘two-speed‘ internet. The idea is superficially attractive – content providers pay a premium to have their stuff delivered faster, and the consumer benefits from improved service. It’s like […]
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Tags: broadband, net neutrality, network, neutrality, telco
My firm moved offices a little while ago, and one of the things I was looking forward to was a much better Internet pipe than we had in our old place (which seemed like a domestic ADSL shared across 100+ people). Part of the plan was a fully VOIP telephone system, something that I’ll return […]
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Tags: broadband, efm, ethernet, ethernet first mile, network, telco, wimax
Broadband Britain – really?
I’ve just spent the last few weeks trying to suck the cloud through a very thin and broken straw – my mistake, trying to use the Internet in the City of London. The proposed telephone tax that came out of the Digital Britain report (and failed to find its way through parliament in the finance […]
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Tags: adsl, broadband, efm, fiber, fibre, sdsl, voip, xdsl
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