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Chris / Lins: I found out early on BDUK MANDATED that councils MUST go through OJEU procurement if they were to see any funds given to them which basically put a stop to any community projects. OJEU was supposed to open up the market place but it didn’t - it made things worse. Them stating [...]

Ah, right. Total low frequency spectrum ownership may exclude Voda / O2 automatically, then, as they would have to give up some of their 900Mhz just to bid on the 800Mhz. Just about the same as being blocked, really, then…

Are you sure, Louis? That was the initial findings of the DB report and appeared to of been adopted early last year when the auction first got talked about… How on earth would it be fair if anybody but T-Mobile, Three and Orange didn’t get the same amount of spectrum O2 have at 900Mhz as [...]

O2 apparently started trailing LTE 4G on 800Mhz in Carlisle about a year ago. Never heard anything more about that. LTE Advanced is what we actually need deployed in this country -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_Advanced 3G missed a trick in that it wasn’t backwards compatible with 2G so we now have two sets of cell sites everywhere. [...]

It was put correctly at a meeting last night: Most technologies that will use the speeds talked about have not been invented yet. It combines with what I say about the roads needing to be built first before we could drive over land easily. The same is true about internet access. Video conferencing specifically tends [...]

@Phil: Sorry, shouldn’t of mentioned BT there but dark fibre is what it needs to be really. If you look into what Chris and Miles have to pay for their connections, it is REALLY expensive. This is because they have to sell it at the same price as BT would otherwise there would be a [...]