36 things posted by Dave Carter
From infinity to beyond
Posted on April 13, 2011 in broadband, fibre to the home, nga.
Very interesting announcement today featured on the Thinkbroadband site, if you’ve not seen it elsewhere.
“A new collaboration between Fujitsu, Virgin Media, TalkTalk and Cisco plans to deliver next-generation broadband to 5 million homes and businesses in rural areas of the UK. Fujitsu will create an open-access wholesale network.”
To read more … http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4643-new-collaboration-to-offer-ftth-to-5-million-rural-homes-and-businesses.html
Plus more here too:
http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/networking/3273877/fujitsu-announces-15-billion-broadband-fibre-rollout-plans/
Underground, overground, wobbling freely: Manchester Internet out(r)age
Posted on April 1, 2011 in BT, internet, manchester, open access.
Loads of people have been in touch this week to see if we know why many parts of the city centre lost all Internet connectivity for more than 24 hours last Thursday and Friday. You’d think that something like this happening would create a major news story, locally at least. So far we’ve not been [...]
“Smart Cities”: the new ‘original, modern’ or the techno empire strikes back
Posted on March 9, 2011 in digital agenda, eurocities, Living Labs, manchester, open innovation, smart cities.
Manchester is a founder member of a new European Smart Cities network which aims to promote the idea that, by making a conscious effort to use innovative digital technologies to improve living and working conditions, we can develop a more inclusive and sustainable urban environment. Manchester is working with a group of cities which have [...]
South Korea gets Gigabit Broadband for £20 per month
Posted on March 7, 2011 in .
Thanks to Malcolm Corbett at INCA [www.inca.coop] for this little gem. Looks like we’re well on the way to having the best in the world by 2015 (not!). Also great to find obscure websites like this “Advanced Television” one which is packed full of useful info.
By the end of 2012, South Korea intends to connect [...]
Celebrating 20 years: from Telematics to Future Internet
Posted on March 4, 2011 in geonet, manchester host, poptel, Telematics.
At the end of another busy week it’s good to reflect on the little celebration we had on Tuesday to mark 20 years since we launched our first large scale digital project, although we called it ‘Telematics’ then, on March 1st 1991. This was the Manchester Host, the UK’s first public access computer communications and [...]
What’s going on? Summer Update……
Posted on August 13, 2010 in Corridor Project, FTTP, nga.
Having just got back from holiday (first time to Croatia, fantastic place and time!) it’s time to take (a bit of) stock and think about what’s next for all of our work on next generation access (NGA) digital infrastructure. For the past few months we’ve been ploughing ahead with the Corridor project, more about [...]
Surfing UK: closing the digital divide between rich and poor
Posted on February 15, 2010 in .
Many people will remember Claire Shearman who worked with us on a number of EU ICT projects in the 1990s. Claire now lives in Melbourne, Australia, and was recently listening to a radio programme about the Digital Divide in Europe, originated by a German radio station and broadcast by Australian radio.
Manchester City Region makes the case for fibre
Posted on February 9, 2010 in fibre to the premises, FTTP, Manchester City Region, mdda, nga.
Yesterday at 5pm we finally got the full submission into the NWDA to ask for just under £10M of investment to build a state of the art Open Access fibre to the premises (FTTP) network connecting up as many of the key employment sites in the city region as possible. The MDDA team, together with [...]
and so this is Christmas (nearly)…..
Posted on December 16, 2009 in digital manchester, eurocities, green digital, manchester town hall, nga.
Here’s to a Green (and Digital) Christmas! Things are finally beginning to get a little less hectic and we’re starting to plan some great things for 2010. In the meantime the Tech Team have put together a great little time lapse video piece of the view from the Town Hall tower across St. Peters Square [...]
Finland agrees legal right to 100Mb broadband for all by 2015
Posted on November 10, 2009 in broadband, Europe, finland, nga.
Just come across this fascinating news story from one of my favourite European countries, Finland. As well as gaining the legal right to have at least 1Mb access by next year it has now been agreed that everyone will have the right to a 100Mb connection by the end of 2015. Perhaps even the reindeer [...]
