<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>All posts</title><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com</link><description>A feed of all new content on Convergence Conversation</description><language>en-gb</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:20:14 +0000</lastBuildDate><copyright>Copyright: (C) 2009 Convergence Conversation and contributing authors.  For full copyright info and terms of use visit http://www.convergenceconversation.com/</copyright><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>Convergence Conversation</title><url>http://www.convergenceconversation.com//lib/img/rssimg.png</url><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com</link></image>	<item><title>The Politicising of Broadband</title><description><![CDATA[Some interesting comments on the NGA question from David Cameron and the Conservative party today. In a speech on the economy and its various problems Cameron said this about the importance of broadband to the UK and what, if elected, he would do about it: &nbsp;&#39;Fibre optic broadband is changing the way people work and do business, and it has the potential to completely transform our economy. It could open up new markets for our creative industries, promote innovation, create new, family-friendly jobs as people can work from home - and help reduce carbon emissions.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/sam.ingleby/the-politicising-of-broadband</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/sam.ingleby/the-politicising-of-broadband</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:52:53 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Universal Broadband call by Lord Carter</title><description><![CDATA[The Register commenting on an article in The Times mentions Lord Carters call for a Universal Broadband service funded by industry to replace the outdated USO on PSTN,&nbsp; 62,000 public payphones and a text direct service.One is tempted to state you read it on this forum first,&nbsp; but the notion of running a consultation on how this might be achieved could be an interesting exercise,&nbsp; especially in advance of the spectrum auction.&nbsp; The basic proposition is to define a minimum bandwidth, perhaps 500kbps with a defined quality within whatever &#39;up to&#39;]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/mike.kiely/universal-broadband-call-by-lord-carter</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/mike.kiely/universal-broadband-call-by-lord-carter</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:36:42 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Ring! Ring! Hot News, 5th January 2008</title><description><![CDATA[In Today&#8217;s Issue: Carter the unstoppable spec machine; UK rocked by spectrum row; double dongle density; no more BT USO, a quid pro quo for fibre? oh no; Andy Burnham is king of the world, it says here; Indian 3G licences, prices doubled; Nokia goes into crisis vulture mode; new PyS60 comes with music, without Symbian security certificate; CCC demonstrates killer SMS; Android vs OpenMoko; changes at the OMTP; Samsung fabs own mobile chips, escapes the Qualcomm Borg; Telco 2.0 elsewhere; models for efficient message-passing protocols! Ministerial intervention;]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/simon.torrance/ring-ring-hot-news-5th-january-2008</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/simon.torrance/ring-ring-hot-news-5th-january-2008</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:07:10 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Brown to invest in next gen broadband?</title><description><![CDATA[Both BBC and ITV news have just mentioned the possibility of investment in some form of next gen network (no details given, of course) in an attempt by Brown to create jobs during this recession. Sky mentions it briefly on their website. Very Tennessee Valley. How it could be implemented in a co-ordinated manner remains to be seen....your thoughts at this juncture? I'm liking the recession if it accelerates the dev of FTTH across the nation, but am not convinced that it will start in those places that most need it first ie where there is likely to be substantial FTTH market failure with Virgin, BT et al.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/lindsey.annison/brown-to-invest-in-next-gen-broadband</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/lindsey.annison/brown-to-invest-in-next-gen-broadband</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:58:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>BT seeks to put FTTH investment on hold unless Ofcom play ball</title><description><![CDATA[Yet another reason why the FTTH infrastructure in the UK needs new entrants. BT have threatened to delay investment in FTTC/H unless Ofcom permits it to further raise access prices for the existing copper infrastructure. These prices have already been raised recently between 4 and 11% but BT wants more. There seems to be an outright failure in this country to understand the importance of FTTH, despite the likes of FTTH Council's Joeri van Bogaert trying to show exactly why FTTH is required across the whole of Europe.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/lindsey.annison/bt-seeks-to-put-ftth-investment-on-hold-unless-ofcom-play-ball</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/lindsey.annison/bt-seeks-to-put-ftth-investment-on-hold-unless-ofcom-play-ball</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:57:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Season's Greetings</title><description><![CDATA[Happy Holidays and best wishes for 2009 (though, if we're honest, I think we all know it's going to suck, barring some intervention from a benevolent advanced alien race)! EuroTelcoblog will be embarking on its 2008 North American Roadshow from 27th December, which in practice means an extended engagement in Memphis, Tennessee, with minimal to nil posting. I know of one amazing story which may break during my absence, so if I miss it, I miss it - but it's a good one. Anyway, back in service on 7th January.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/james.enck/seasons-greetings</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/james.enck/seasons-greetings</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:23:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Where will the NFC magic come from?</title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;I wouldn&#39;t say that I&#39;m particularly interested in what noted brainbox and multi-millionaire media personality Stephen Fry says about things, but I have to applaud his attitude and turn of phrase in this commentDon&rsquo;t you sometimes long to be CEO of a company like Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Nokia or Microsoft? So that you can say to your coders, your designers, your development teams and your software architects: &ldquo;Not ******* Good Enough... Start again. Not ******* Good Enough.&rdquo;[From]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dave.birch/where-will-the-nfc-magic-come-from</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dave.birch/where-will-the-nfc-magic-come-from</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:45:13 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Telco 2.0 is hiring, seeking your views, offering Xmas discount</title><description><![CDATA[1. Drive the Telco 2.0 Research Agenda - Please help direct our 2009 research agenda via a short survey here (5 mins max). We will donate to charity for every respondent (details here). 2. Last chance for Christmas discount on Telco 2.0 research - There are 3 days left on our festive 20% discount offer on groundbreaking Telco 2.0 strategy research reports - use code XMAS08 for online orders here or email us here. 3. Telco 2.0 is hiring world-class staff - Due to the tremendous interest in the Telco 2.0 Initiative and our approach to business model innovation we are hiring staff at all levels, senior and junior:]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/simon.torrance/telco-2.0-is-hiring-seeking-your-views-offering-xmas-discount</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/simon.torrance/telco-2.0-is-hiring-seeking-your-views-offering-xmas-discount</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:55:44 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Ring! Ring! Hot News, 22nd December 2008</title><description><![CDATA[In Today&#8217;s Issue: Virgin Media loves DPI, goes shaky on Phorm; do you really want to compete with iTunes?; Phorm declares victory, execs leap overboard; bizarre disinfo campaign over Google&#8217;s homebrew CDN; &#8220;Stellar Wind&#8221;, it&#8217;s like OpenSocial for spooks; Yahoo! makes nice with privacy advocates; Vodafone crunches CDRs, asks for more; Telstra left standing by SingTel, turns to Chinese spy stories; gloom descends on vendors, even iPhone vendors; traditional Christmas Cable Cut Crisis;]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/simon.torrance/ring-ring-hot-news-22nd-december-2008</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/simon.torrance/ring-ring-hot-news-22nd-december-2008</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:16:36 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>How fast do you want it?</title><description><![CDATA[Understandably there has been a lot of media coverage of the new 50 Mbit/s broadband offering from Virgin Media. In today&#39;s &quot;Observer&quot;, there&#39;s a piece which quotes Michael Phillips of Broadband&nbsp; Choices:&quot;Until high-definition content is readily available on services like iPlayer, there is limited use for Virgin&#39;s high-speed option. But give it a year or so, and it&#39;s entirely plausible that we could be watching the World Cup in high definition by streaming this on to our computers, and that is when services like this could come into their own.&quot;Of course, the whole history of communications is one of technological supply exceeding consumer demand.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/roger.darlington.2/how-fast-do-you-want-it</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/roger.darlington.2/how-fast-do-you-want-it</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:25:21 +0000</pubDate></item>
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