<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>Posts in Policy</title><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/categories/policy</link><description>Posts in the Policy category on Convergence Conversation</description><language>en-gb</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:36:14 +0000</lastBuildDate><copyright>Copyright: (C) 2012 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/categories/policy</link></image>	<item><title>Web Accessibility - addressing digital inclusion with standards</title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s been estimated that 11m people in Britain are disabled, with around 7m of those being of working age. What&rsquo;s more, there&rsquo;s a significant (and rising) number of older people who may not think of themselves as disabled but who might have difficulty with their sight or hearing. So, at a time when an increasing number of contact points are being moved online, it&rsquo;s clear that unless accessibility is embedded into communication strategies, organisations may&nbsp;be unwittingly&nbsp;creating a digital divide.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/david.fatscher/web-accessibility---addressing-digital-inclusion-with-standards</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/david.fatscher/web-accessibility---addressing-digital-inclusion-with-standards</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 10:52:17 +0100</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Mobile broadband traffic - be careful about language</title><description><![CDATA[I am currently writing a Disruptive Analysis research report on mobile broadband traffic management strategies. I have discussed various concepts on this for the past year or so - the relative merits of offload, compression, policy management and so forth.One important factor for vendors and operators to keep reminding themselves is about the importance of accurate language, logic and semantics. The wrong words can drive poor decision-making, especially on &quot;emotive&quot; issues. Non-sequiturs]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/mobile-broadband-traffic---be-careful-about-language</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/mobile-broadband-traffic---be-careful-about-language</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 10:29:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Network policy management and "corner cases"</title><description><![CDATA[I&#39;ve been speaking to a lot of people about policy management recently, fitting in with the work I&#39;m doing on mobile broadband traffic management, as well as the Business Models aspect of my newly published report on Broadband Access for Telco 2.0.A lot of what I hear makes sense, at least at a superficial level. Certainly, I can see the argument for using PCRFs to enable innovative tariffing plans, such as offering users higher maximum speeds at different times of day, or using DPI or smarter GGSNs to limit access by children to undesirable sites.But there&#39;s a paradox I see on the horizon.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/network-policy-management-and-corner-cases</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/network-policy-management-and-corner-cases</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:09:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Survey: What is the biggest challenge to the connected home proposition?</title><description><![CDATA[Is it Coherent Policy; Consumer Confusion; Maintenance; Security Concerns; Spectrum Constraints; or Standardisation &amp; Interoperability?&nbsp;You can find the RESULTS so far and VOTE here. &nbsp;(voting options on the left hand side) &nbsp;&nbsp;We&#39;ll post the results here shortly.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/colin.batten.2/survey-what-is-the-biggest-challenge-to-the-connected-home-proposition</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/colin.batten.2/survey-what-is-the-biggest-challenge-to-the-connected-home-proposition</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:33:31 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Infrastructure is politics</title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;When we implement communications infrastructure, we implement politics.&nbsp; Even if we don&#39;t realise that&#39;s what we&#39;re doing, we make implementation choices that embed political structures.&nbsp; I think we should take these choices seriously.&nbsp; To see what I mean, consider a superficially simple case: Should people be allowed to have &quot;anonymous&quot; prepaid mobile phones (well, SIMs) or not? It&#39;s a simple question, but a complicated subject. And it&#39;s worth exploring because it helps us to have a real, focused discussion about practical privacy and security issues.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dave.birch/infrastructure-is-politics</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dave.birch/infrastructure-is-politics</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:52:09 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Intelligent Ways to Solve the Middle Mile Problem</title><description><![CDATA[Now you might say that I&#39;ve picked this title driven by pure chauvinism, but I assure you, it&#39;s nothing of the sort. I just think that - once in a while - when your country adopts a sensible and measurably effective policy, it&#39;s good to acknowledge it. The reason I went down this trail of thought again is the excellent article published by Optical Reflection on Gabrielle Gauthey and her views on how the French policy makers solved the middle mile problem (Public Money and Broadband in France).]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/benoit.felten/intelligent-ways-to-solve-the-middle-mile-problem</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/benoit.felten/intelligent-ways-to-solve-the-middle-mile-problem</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>The Incentive Paradox aka European NGA State Aid Guidelines</title><description><![CDATA[At the end of last week, the European Commission finally released its new rulings on state aid for broadband. The full document is called Community Guidelines for the application of State aid rules in relation to rapid deployment of broadband networks and you can read the whole 24 pages of it here.To say that this has been long awaited it an understatement. Whether it&#39;s a significant improvement on the previous (unclear) rulings is a matter of opinion and really depends on where you&#39;re standing.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/benoit.felten/the-incentive-paradox-aka-european-nga-state-aid-guidelines</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/benoit.felten/the-incentive-paradox-aka-european-nga-state-aid-guidelines</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Heavy Reading predicts gloomy outlook for UK</title><description><![CDATA[A recent report published by Heavy Reading entitled &quot;FTTH Review &amp; Five Year Forecast: The Road to Next-Gen PON&quot; does indeed make heavy reading for us UK residents.http://spedr.com/2dkz8The report shows significant growth in FTTH connections globally with a predicted 129.2 million FTTH connected households on 2013 compared with 35.98 million in 2008.In the Executive Summary the report concludes that &quot;Mass-market FTTH is inevitable&quot;. Certainly good news for those of us extolling its virtues.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/mark.purdom/heavy-reading-predicts-gloomy-outlook-for-uk</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/mark.purdom/heavy-reading-predicts-gloomy-outlook-for-uk</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:50:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Make FTTH an election issue</title><description><![CDATA[Not some impoverished USO. Nor anything to do with copper eg Fibre To the Copper/co-ax. But Fibre to every home and business in the country. Start lobbying your MP, find out where they stand, let us know. Make it a matter for the hustings.....We have to start making this a major issue that matters and get the right policies in place through a) education of the masses during the run-up to the next election, and b) policy delivery, preferably before but also post-election, whoever is elected.The next election will occur within months of the UK Olympics.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/lindsey.annison/make-ftth-an-election-issue</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/lindsey.annison/make-ftth-an-election-issue</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:23:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Even-more-digital Britain</title><description><![CDATA[One of the first things you learn from studying the history of technology is that it takes a long time for new technologies to replace old ones. When something new comes along, it spends some time intermingling with the old, being used in the same processes, fitting the existing ecosystem for sometimes generations before natural selection takes over. So, the arrival of high-speed Internet didn&#39;t destroy the postal service, but changed it. More home shopping means more parcels and packages, more e-mail means less letters, and so on.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dave.birch/even-more-digital-britain</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dave.birch/even-more-digital-britain</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:37:35 +0100</pubDate></item>
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