The head of BT Wholesale, Sally Davis, has been busy nattering away to the press this week - first talking about the plans for her division to offer a Content Delivery Network (CDN) over which ISP customers can prefer traffic from content partners and now warning the government against dishing out Next Generation Broadband rollout funding to companies other than them.As you may recall, the government is overseeing the divvying up a £830m pot for faster broadband rollouts up until 2017, and Davis has warned that providing the funds to some of the smaller scale rollouts risks creating a patchwork of schemes that are not necessarily standards based and easy to interact with - with the inherent assumption being, of course, that it's a much better idea to give them all the cash.
Davis warned:
"It's like when the railways were built and you had all these different gauges and they didn't connect."It's not as if they have a vested interest though is it!
For their part the government has been encouraging smaller consortia, saying that their Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) body will prefer bids from them wherever possible.
1 comments:
This is a scandal waiting to happen. For years BT has milked the copper phone network to deliver 'broadband' to 2 thirds of the country. The rest have struggled with bad connections, slow speeds and many are still stuck on dial up. They paid their boss Ian Livingstone over £2 million last year. They don't pay off their billions of pound pension deficit to save tax, yet give shareholders their dividends. They haven't invested in their infrastructure out of exchanges and seem hell bent on using cabinets to keep everyone on the obsolete copper phone lines. No way should they get any public funding. The funding should go to the companies who want to deliver next generation access, through fibre to the home, not the crap infinity stop gap which costs an awful lot just to protect an obsolet business model. Copper is dead. Long live fibre.
chris
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