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The Tech Community needs to take politics seriously before it is too late
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The broadband business rates “holiday” does not, yet, fully address the problem.
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The ending of business rates on full fibre broadband has fired the start gun for an explosion of activity. But there is much more to do.
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The Home Builders Federation opposes Ashford Borough Council’s fibre to the home policy because it goes further than their deal with BT for free fibre.
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Chief Executives should back the sector skills partnerships to reform the UK apprenticeship system not just resist Brexit so they can continue to import EU talent
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When the Prime Minister used her closing conference speech to say it is “just not right” that “half of people living in rural areas, and so many small businesses, can’t get a decent broadband connection” we knew something really had changed. Martyn Warwick saw alarm bells for BT when she added that her administration is…
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Without a surge of investment in “future ready” fibre and wireless networks next spring, the UK will fall behind France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Spain, let alone Scandinavia and the Pacific Rim before the Brexit negotiations are complete. If so, Brexit might indeed be the disaster the Remoaners claim. By contrast we could leapfrog the rest…
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In July we learned that 10% of the UK population have been the victims of e-Crime – albeit nearly always reimbursed, having “only” suffered the hassle of a refused card and a couple of days struggle to get the cash to survive until they received a new card. Earlier this week we learned that on-line…
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I was struck by a recent bleat that Whitehall is not “cool” enough to attract top cybersecurity talent. There is no pool of “top cyber security talent”. There are ten vacancies for every candidate. And the quality and motivation of many of the candidat… Continue reading What pool of top cybersecurity talent? It does not exist.
Is the customer frustration caused by cloud-based monitoring software costing more lost sales than it helps you win. Insecure data analytics services can also open you up to massive fines.
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