Tag: BT
Manchester’s Big Open Data Project
What happens when a city decides to make its data available to others to use easily? You get Manchester’s CityVerve. CityVerve’s ‘platform of platforms’ treats the city as a living breathing organism by giving it a technology layer that acts as a central nervous system, smartly supporting and connecting independent systems and applications. It is…
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Will 5G replace wifi as we know it?
It’s a few years off, but researchers have already managed to achieve 5G download speeds of 1Tbps. Would this type of performance ultimately supersede wifi as we know it? If I were a BT shareholder I would be wanting the business to move back into mobile phones and networks as fast as possible. Researchers at the…
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But BT, you know who I am!
BT’s current strapline is, “bringing it all together”. Good idea…so why don’t they do it? In this mornings post was a piece of direct mail from BT addressed to “The Householder”. Fabulous, but they know who we are; we’ve got two landlines and we’ve been customers at this address for over 10 years. In fact,…
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BT Limits Its Speed
Apparently the BT van in front of me was, “limited to 70mph to protect the environment.” What an excellent idea. I wonder if BT ever considered that the national speed limit may aim to limit vehicles to 70mph. Am I just a grumpy old sod, or is this yet another example of ‘green wash’ activity…
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Mergers that add value
This article talks about the merger of the AA and Saga: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6236862.stm It is interesting to note that 2 + 2 = 5. The appropriate mergers of businesses can increase value. I think the best merger at the moment would be BT and Royal Mail. A bit of déjà vu perhaps, but what a great…
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