Westminster, Monday 20th Oct 2008
Panelists included Amy Chalfen (BT Openreach), Kip Meek (Chairman, Broadband Stakeholders Group), Katie Miller (Head of Government Affairs, Europe, Nortel) and Alex Blowers from OFCOM. The meeting with chaired by Malcolm Harbour MEP.
I’ve not been closely involved in broadband infrastructure technologies for 7 or 8 years and it was very interesting to get a view on the current and future state of the ‘industry’. Much of the debate focused on the nature of fibre infrastructure that would be required to support technology demand in the UK (looking as far out as the next 30 years). The immediacy of bandwidth requirements for 2012 was discussed, although proposed solutions seemed scarce. Areas which I find interesting in the overall debate: ..Continue reading..
