TIA Telecommunities

Next-Gen Telecom, UK Edition September 26, 2007

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From Cisco’s policy blog, good news on next-generation access in England.

Richard Allan says:

The difficulties remain but the call is now for all stakeholders collectively to work out how to address them. This is being led by Stephen Timms MP, a Minister well known for both his expertise in and passion for ICT, who is to organise a Summit on Next Generation Access.

It’s always good when a dormant debate erupts, if what you’re trying to do is push the envelope. Hopefully vendors and regulators there won’t find themselves at cross purposes.

Meanwhile, over O’Reilly, Raj Singh lambastes Vodafone UK’s decision to remove the User-Agent field from the mobile browser headers, calling it “walled garden” at its worst. It’s always interesting to me when the barriers to better, more accessible communications aren’t coming from regulators, they’re from the companies themselves.

We’ll see how both issues play out — while neither has direct implications for the U.S. market, they’re both worth watching in a global context.

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