Collaborate Disseminate
With the departure of its most articulate champion Verify now appears dead. But Brexit means that HMG needs an effective and consistant identity policy more than ever. Has the time finally come to look at private sector good practice? If so, what is i… Continue reading Now that Verify has lost its head, will the corpse be decently buried?
You have only three weeks to help get the Apprentice Grant and Levy System right. Yes three weeks. That means robust responses copied to your trade association, professional body and MP, not just completing the questionnaire.
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Both Ofcom and BT need to prioritise the modernisation of the UK digital communications infrastructure
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Pulling forward investment in broadband to help shorten the post-Brexit recession will require making BT “an offer it cannot refuse”.
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BT is unlikely to be able to fund both its quadplay ambitions and the investment needed to provide reliable, resilient and secure converged ubiquity its customers (including business) want. Separating Openreach from Wholesale and EE will not help – he… Continue reading Which is more important to the future of BT? Quadplay or a Converged Utility with EE?
BT Group failing to invest potentially hundreds of millions a year in infrastructure, service standards at Openreach consistently poor
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The priorities for Digital Policy will change under the new government – but not because of Brexit which means what we want it to mean – provided we help ministers to achieve what we really want, not just the bland headlines.
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The IT industry, from trade associations to professional bodies, needs to decide what it wants from the Brexit negotiations and work together to achieve it. Business as usual, acquiescing in failed attempts to create a digital single market is not a su… Continue reading Putting the IT into BrexIT: what do we (and they) really want?
The question is not “What will be the effect of Brexit on the ICT industry?”. It is “what do you want the impact of Brexit?” to be. Juncker’s call for “immediate clarity” as to what the UK wants may have been unrealistic and unreasonable. A similar call for long term-clarity is not.
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The effect of Brexit will depend partly on how well we exploit the opportunities offered, including to help bring about reform of the European Union after an amicable separation as opposed to a messy divorce.
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