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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Engineers warn UK government that 4G roll-out will disappoint consumers

The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Europe’s largest engineering and technology organisation, is calling on the UK government to take radical steps and change its plans for 4G mobile phone spectrum allocation. Without these changes, the IET says regulation will continue to be a serious barrier to growth.

It wants the government to define a ‘national ambition’ for mobile infrastructure to support UK competitiveness, investment and innovation.

Professor Will Stewart, who chairs the IET Communications Policy Panel, said “Growing demand for broadband is stretching the capability of existing networks. Wholesale network competition must perform better or we will fall further and further behind consumer expectations. It is important for the Government and regulators to promote a vision for the future of mobile superfast services that inspire sustainable investment and wider competition. A reformed and modernised UK network regulatory framework then needs to fully support this ambition.  It is not about more regulation but the right regulation.”

The IET is asking the government to consider mobile and fixed-line communications more fully in the context of national infrastructure in the same way that it does with energy, transport and water.

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What my granny taught me about online shopping

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When it came to telephones, my granny was an early adopter. She had a landline phone for as long as I can remember - and that’s quite a while when you consider the town only got an automatic telephone exchange two years after I was born. Recent research has now suggested that my granny was also well ahead of the game when it came to consumer behaviour.

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Cortado offers a secure 'cloud desktop' without unnecessary restrictions

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Security is often a balancing act - and security on mobile devices is no exception. If procedures and processes aren't tough enough, you'll compromise the security of the information you're protecting. But if your security is too tight or if it seems too complicated to an end user, that user is likely to find a way round your security by doing something else instead.

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Last week at The Fonecast: 7th November 2011

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I’m reminded of a sketch from BBC TV’s ‘The Young Ones’ in 1982. The four horsemen of the apocalypse are waiting around.

“What’s new?”, asks Pestilence. “Microchip technology”, replies one of the others. “That’s quite a new thing, isn’t it?”

Quite new. It’s probably the best description for much of last week’s mobile industry news.

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Mobile technology publication becomes the first NFC-equipped 'smart book'... sort of

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Atria Books, part of the Simon & Schuster publishing family, has released what it’s calling the first-ever smart book. A thousand copies of ‘The Impulse Economy’ by Gary Schwartz will have an NFC sticker attached, providing a web link to book-related content.

Hmmm. That’s not really a smart book, is it?  The same kind of logic means my NFC credit card turns my wallet into a ‘smart wallet’ and transforms the pocket of my jeans into ‘smart jeans’. It means my NFC-equipped smartphone is a smart smartphone.

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Last week at The Fonecast: 31st October 2011

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In the world of retail, you can’t move for Hallowe’en puns at the moment. You know the kind of thing. Spooky offers. Frighteningly low prices. Missing our deals will haunt you. There’s not the ghost of a chance we’ll shift these PlayBooks unless we cut the price.

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