Pointed post on TeleGeography, looking at capacity on the transatlantic run - the route that keeps the Internet alive for the UK.
According to new projections from TeleGeography’s Global Bandwidth Forecast Service, bandwidth requirements will grow 33 percent (CAGR) between 2008 and 2015. At this rate, trans-Atlantic capacity will be exhausted by 2014, and cables providing diversity [...]

No, not strangling them, just reducing their download speeds. Today’s article on the BBC site:
BT Broadband cuts the speed users can watch video services like the BBC iPlayer and YouTube at peak times.  A customer who has signed on to an up to 8 megabit per second (MBPS) package can have speed cut to below 1Mbps. A [...]

So, having failed to sell it’s UK broadband business, Tiscali now appears to be in big trouble. Ernst & Young raises questions about future of Tiscali and refused to sign off the companies annual results (See Tiscali piece in the FT) and they still haven’t found a buyer after talks with British Sky Broadcasting fell through. The [...]

Back in December I asked “Does Cisco Still Love The Enterprise?” Well, it appears to be spending it’s money elsewhere these days. The much rumoured Pure Digital (Flip Video) In Acquisition has taken place, as Cisco buys it’s way into Apple territory.
So, why should business IT folk worry? Well, it isn’t for the reasons you think. [...]

Ofcom seems intent on out-doing Lord Carter’s Digital Britain Report (see “Ofcom backs expansion of super-fast broadband” in the Guardian). However, today’s announcement seems more like spin than action, although the mainstream media is lapping it up.
I looks as if the Digital Britain report may end up being a bit mute, since Ofcom has given [...]