I’m happy to say that Ethernet in the First Mile is starting to get customers excited. EFM? Yet another !”£#@ acronym do I hear you say? Yes and actually EFM is quite an exciting proposition in 21CN enabled exchanges around the country. That’s around 600 now with notionally 1,100 by the time BT has finished the rollout. […]
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Carphone buys Tiscali
I know this is big news in every single media outlet there is today. CPW has bought Tiscali for £236m making it the second largest broadband provider. So what can I add to all that is being said? Whilst the “big six” is now the “big five” there are still hundreds of small ISPs out […]
Cisco on acquisition trail
I see that Cisco is notionally on the acquisition trail which doesn’t come as a surprise. It is a good time to be cash rich. It wouldn’t surprise me either to find out that Cisco has been sniffing around the Nortel Carrier Division. It would be a great fit. I don’t think it will be […]
Tiscali heavily criticised on BBC
Tiscali featured on the BBC’s Watchdog consumer programme tonight. A number of unhappy people were heard venting their fury about the company’s service levels. I suspect that if they focussed more on their most important asset, their customers, they wouldn’t also be in the news because of their financial woes. It takes a huge amount of […]