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" I wonder if Google realise how much damage they are doing to their reputation even if they believe that their very clever accountants can run rings round HMRC. They have fallen back on where the deal is closed rather than where the sale is made which to most people will seem like a wafer thin difference. Incidentally, if you think we are upset here in the UK, take a look at the venom aimed at them in their 'home' market, the USA where they also think its a good idea not to pay any Corporation tax! The only thing that will make them change their approach to social responsibility (which most come above shareholder returns) is users going elsewhere. Since this story broke I have started using mojeek and it works wonderfully well and I feel better about myself for not helping the cookie monster get even fatter by using UK infrastructure without feeling the need to contribute to the cost. " In Google: Evil is as Evil does. 2 weeks ago by Bill Best
" Wonder what the Corporate tax rate is in North Korea? " In Flying into North Korea, Comrade Eric sings a song of Songun for his supper 5 months ago by Bill Best
" The interesting thing (to me) is how much of the 40 zettabytes of data will actually be useful! It reminded me of a stat I saw that said that only 5% of newspaper print ever got read - and its probably even less with on-line resources (sorry TelecomTV). So the 'killer' App will be the one that finds the 2GB of data that we actually want! BTW who counted all those sand grains? See Local Hero. " In Noah, build me an Ark! There's a flood coming! The world will be inundated by 40 zettabytes of data... 6 months ago by Bill Best
" Margaret Hodge, chairman of the UK Public Accounts Committee, told Google: "We are not accusing you of being illegal. We are accusing you of being immoral." My immediate thoughts drifted back to MP’s expenses and their farcical defence of their allowance claims as being ‘within the rules’. Their own rules of course. But it seems MPs don’t want to be judged by their own ethics and morals but rather than those that they aspire to! It is all a morale maze for sure and who knows how many UK companies may use similar devices to avoid Corporate Tax in other jurisdictions? Apart from Eric’s defence reported here we also heard UK supremo Matt Brittin say “I'm proud of the way we operate." We can’t accuse the Cookie Monster of being on the defensive can we! If the customer doesn’t like it than tough. Of course the remedy lies in our own hands – or fingers. If we dislike Google’s laissez faire attitude to helping pay for the infrastructure they use in their second most profitable market, it is up to us to take our custom elsewhere. So, I can live without Android – no problem there at all – but can we live without the search engine of choice? I have been trying, admittedly with little success, to find an alternative search engine that does the job (and the job is discovering the information I need on the internet – not find me an ad or sponsored link). I have discounted the other corporate Behemoths as they don’t like HRMC either and I continue to experiment with what to me were unheard of alternative search engines until very recently but the search continues. Let’s start a ‘Find the Alternative Search Engine’ campaign for those of us who would like to stick a thumb up to the Cookie Monster. It’s easy to give Starbucks a wide birth and not so easy – but just about possible to avoid Amazon (my Kindle has gone to the Charity Shop) – but if ever there was an opportunity for some clever, cute, good, slick Search Engine to capture the UK market - it’s now! So where are you? Answers on a post here please! " In Google and Tax: How to lose friends and alienate people 6 months ago by Bill Best
" Why does bundling and aggressive SMS pricing reduce TXT traffic? Yes, I see why it reduces SMS revenues but elsewhere in other markets where bundling has occurred SMS traffic increases even if revenues do fall.Twitter also drives a lot more traffic - if not revenue - so these figures seem very strange to me. " In French SMS traffic slumps in Q3 Over 6 months by Bill Best
" Can we fund this from the money raised in the sale of Ed Ball’s houses themselves funded by the 4G spectrum license fees? Seriously it would be nice to see those making $billions off the back of infrastructure doing a bit of technology R&D funding (as they will be - as you rightly say - the end financial beneficiaries). " In £35m to kick-start 5G in the UK (and avoid a repeat of the 4G fiasco) Over 6 months by Bill Best
" Interesting article by James Dyson in the Telegraph this weekend (its was on the barber's chair!) on this subject. He takes a different view and I must admit I am in his camp. If someone invests time, effort, toil, brainpower and their own money in developing new inventions, they should be protected from others simply stealing the idea. I guess we agree to differ! " In "A plague on both your houses" South Korean court finds for (and fines) both Samsung and Apple Over 6 months by Bill Best
" 'It has been unedifying, boring, expensive, largely pointless' I wonder if you would say that if it was your copy being ripped off and published elsewhere? " In "A plague on both your houses" South Korean court finds for (and fines) both Samsung and Apple Over 6 months by Bill Best
" As a very sad and disillusioned BB Torch 9800 ‘smartphone’user – now consigned to the bin (I couldn’t even give it away) I can testify that they did indeed lose their way. There is something to be said for sticking to your knitting. They are still the masters of the mobile email platform and do other messaging quite well and better than most. The jump to smartphone maker though was just too big for them. It is a shame though. Nothing to celebrate in their troubles. " In Bye, Bye, BlackBerry Over 6 months by Bill Best
" Does anyone remember when the EU (EC as was) was instrumental in supporting and creating the GSM industry in Europe which became the envy of the world and copied throughout it. The result was wealth and job creation and a valuable pan-European industry. Where are these visionaries today? The EU seems hell bent on destroying what its forefathers worked so hard to help to create. " In EC investigates possible collusion between Europe's Top Five operators Over 6 months by Bill Best
" Small cell economics would sweeten nicely for MNOs if they stopped asking for full OMS capability. It’s ironic that they keep the femto/pico cells production and factory costs high because of their insistence that it does it everything a macro cell can do, yet will happily offload traffic to unlicensed spectrum on Wi-Fi with no operational controls at all. This does have me scratching my head. " In Mobile telcos set to offload 30 per cent of their traffic to small cells by mid-decade Over 6 months by Bill Best
" To return to a theme mentioned before here on rural broadband, the mishandling of new spectrum by Ofcom is the root cause of this problem. The delays in making spectrum available are bad enough but to then seek to raise huge amounts of money from the spectrum licenses compounds the problem (some of which they intend to subsidise cable/fibre operators with). What sort of free liberalised market is that please Mr. Ofcom? LTE can serve the rural communities very well indeed but Ofcom should be encouraging the market for this - not killing it at birth. " In UK city dwellers get the choice lots of telecoms services. Country dwellers get Hobson's choice Over 6 months by Bill Best
" email delivery to the phone doesn't have to be this complicated and RIM obvioulsy have a 'solution' that doesn't scale (understatement). What worked for 5 million devices is creaking at 70 million so where do they go from here? One bright spot on their horizon is that the next 30 million customers are going to take an awful long time to acquire given them plenty of time to go back to the drawing board. " In RIM: a company with Eg and Ham all over its face Over 6 months by Bill Best
" I have just had the 3 most productive work days in the last 10 years. Now why did I need that BB in the first place? The most worrying thing for RIM out of all this is that good 'old fahioned' pull email (i.e. get it when WE want it) is not such a bad option after all. Less email interupts = more work done. Who'd have thought it! " In BlackBerry in a hell of a jam as system continues to crumble Over 6 months by Bill Best
" My first (and last) Blackberry phone is the Torch 9800 and I can say without a shadow of doubt that it is the worst phone I have had in 20 years so seeing the decline in their fortunes comes as no suprise to me at all. Outside of their email client comfort zone they are pretty much useless. " In It's grim at RIM: Another bad quarter Over 6 months by Bill Best
" A bit of evidence to back up this theory would be nice. Its a finger in the air even if it an AVI finger in the air. " In Wholesale predicted to drive 4G services Over 6 months by Bill Best
" Two things strike me. “the ponderous, monopolistic companies in this sector" is a damming indictment of his own parties privatisation policy (not to mention years of Oftel and Ofcom mismanagement) and also that there is no recognition that wireless will play a vital part in rural broadband – or at least it would if the government stopped looking at spectrum as a windfall for the Treasury. They can’t encourage rural broadband roll-out and raise a tax levy on the spectrum needed for it at the same time. " In UK MP wants the out of work to dig big ditches for fat pipes. Fathead Over 6 months by Bill Best
" Sounds like Ofcom talking up the cost of spectrum! The UK Government has indicated it wants to raise £4bn in the spectrum auction and we are supposed to believe that they are trying to encourage 4G roll-out! Bizarrely where I live they are even giving subsidies and grants to ISPs to provide 'superfast' broadband in rural areas. You'd laugh if it wasn't so ludicrous. " In UK regulator says 4G will deliver 200% capacity gains Over 6 months by Bill Best
" As someone living in a rural area and putting up with ADSL, this article depresses me. So Fujitsu will provide fibre to about 5 million homes (that’s not a lot) as long as the government gives them a huge subsidy. Meanwhile BT will provide fibre (if you beg for it) to 2/3rds of rural homes (that’s not a lot) but again only as long as the government pays. Is this how a liberalised free market is supposed to work? Meanwhile the same government bleeds mobile operators dry and demands outrageous fees for selling spectrum so that it can give the money raised to fixed line operators to poor down the drain (sorry duct). It seems to me that the only chance I have of getting fast broadband in my rural area is through LTE and perhaps the government should remember that this is supposed to be a free market and stop robbing Paul to pay Peter especially when Peter has no intent to really provide fast broadband in rural areas. Perhaps they should think about auctioning duct space as they do spectrum? This duct space was after all paid for by and large by the public when BT was a PTT. " In Fujitsu proposes new superfast broadband network for rural UK in competition to BT Over 6 months by Bill Best
" So, Satoru Iwata confesses - at last - that proprietary hardware = inflated high cost of gaming software. The swing to smartphones, wider distribution of games and opening up of the market is good news for everyone. (Oh, except the greedy Satoru Iwata of course!) " In Angry Birds makes Nintendo boss... erm... angry, actually Over 6 months by Bill Best
" Brother Bob is indeed a bit behind the times. The UK Government have already done this little tax wheeze. They took £24 billion in advance taxation from the operators for the pleasure of offering the SMS service. " In Msg from Bob Crow: a penny for your thoughts Over 6 months by Bill Best
" You're right about what is cool one day is decidely uncool the next with teenagers and 20 somethings. Is Twitter the next to feel this? Has it 'sold' out to corporates and do the celebs actually get paid to tweet? Are the celebs just advertising in disguise and getting well paid for it? All of a sudden this doesn't look like a cool site anymore. " In MySpace, MyMistake, MyLoss. MyEgg, MyFace Over 6 months by Bill Best
" Gosh, posted from California I think! " In Spooked Nokia broadens offensive against Apple Over 6 months by Bill Best
" Well said but look on the bright side. With only around 28 parliamentary work days before a mandatory election, there is very little chance of this bill being passed. " In “Necessity, the tyrant's plea"; John Milton Over 6 months by Bill Best
" I know what’s coming next. The ever caring, proactive, but unelected and unaccountable Viviane Reding (erstwhile commissioner for information society and media at the EU) will demand pan European regulation on anti suicide measures insisting that every operator introduce an active program to ensure all staff are happy and content and that their only worry in life is that Governments will stop organizing their lives for them. " In The France Telecom suicide scandal (which probably isn't) Over 6 months by Bill Best
" When one2one pushed enhanced voice quality in the UK (Enhanced Full Rate Encoding) it bombed in the market place and I don't think anyone really hankers after better voice qaulity - especially for only some on-net calls to another compatible device. Sure if you ask any one if they would they prefer a higher quality anything they will say yes! Don't forget the Radio RXQ will have more impact on the call quality at the end of the day no matter what device is on the end of it. " In Moldova calling: never mind the bandwidth hear the quality Over 6 months by Bill Best

" I wonder if Google realise how much damage they are doing to their reputation even if they believe that their very clever accountants can run rings round HMRC. They have fallen back on where the deal is closed rather than where the sale is made which to most people will seem like a wafer thin difference. Incidentally, if you think we are upset here in the UK, take a look at the venom aimed at them in their 'home' market, the USA where they also think its a good idea not to pay any Corporation tax! The only thing that will make them change their approach to social responsibility (which most come above shareholder returns) is users going elsewhere. Since this story broke I have started using mojeek and it works wonderfully well and I feel better about myself for not helping the cookie monster get even fatter by using UK infrastructure without feeling the need to contribute to the cost. "

In Google: Evil is as Evil does. 2 weeks ago by Bill Best

" Wonder what the Corporate tax rate is in North Korea? "

In Flying into North Korea, Comrade Eric sings a song of Songun for his supper 5 months ago by Bill Best

" The interesting thing (to me) is how much of the 40 zettabytes of data will actually be useful! It reminded me of a stat I saw that said that only 5% of newspaper print ever got read - and its probably even less with on-line resources (sorry TelecomTV). So the 'killer' App will be the one that finds the 2GB of data that we actually want! BTW who counted all those sand grains? See Local Hero. "

In Noah, build me an Ark! There's a flood coming! The world will be inundated by 40 zettabytes of data... 6 months ago by Bill Best

" Margaret Hodge, chairman of the UK Public Accounts Committee, told Google: "We are not accusing you of being illegal. We are accusing you of being immoral." My immediate thoughts drifted back to MP’s expenses and their farcical defence of their allowance claims as being ‘within the rules’. Their own rules of course. But it seems MPs don’t want to be judged by their own ethics and morals but rather than those that they aspire to! It is all a morale maze for sure and who knows how many UK companies may use similar devices to avoid Corporate Tax in other jurisdictions? Apart from Eric’s defence reported here we also heard UK supremo Matt Brittin say “I'm proud of the way we operate." We can’t accuse the Cookie Monster of being on the defensive can we! If the customer doesn’t like it than tough. Of course the remedy lies in our own hands – or fingers. If we dislike Google’s laissez faire attitude to helping pay for the infrastructure they use in their second most profitable market, it is up to us to take our custom elsewhere. So, I can live without Android – no problem there at all – but can we live without the search engine of choice? I have been trying, admittedly with little success, to find an alternative search engine that does the job (and the job is discovering the information I need on the internet – not find me an ad or sponsored link). I have discounted the other corporate Behemoths as they don’t like HRMC either and I continue to experiment with what to me were unheard of alternative search engines until very recently but the search continues. Let’s start a ‘Find the Alternative Search Engine’ campaign for those of us who would like to stick a thumb up to the Cookie Monster. It’s easy to give Starbucks a wide birth and not so easy – but just about possible to avoid Amazon (my Kindle has gone to the Charity Shop) – but if ever there was an opportunity for some clever, cute, good, slick Search Engine to capture the UK market - it’s now! So where are you? Answers on a post here please! "

In Google and Tax: How to lose friends and alienate people 6 months ago by Bill Best

" Why does bundling and aggressive SMS pricing reduce TXT traffic? Yes, I see why it reduces SMS revenues but elsewhere in other markets where bundling has occurred SMS traffic increases even if revenues do fall.Twitter also drives a lot more traffic - if not revenue - so these figures seem very strange to me. "

In French SMS traffic slumps in Q3 Over 6 months by Bill Best

" Can we fund this from the money raised in the sale of Ed Ball’s houses themselves funded by the 4G spectrum license fees? Seriously it would be nice to see those making $billions off the back of infrastructure doing a bit of technology R&D funding (as they will be - as you rightly say - the end financial beneficiaries). "

In £35m to kick-start 5G in the UK (and avoid a repeat of the 4G fiasco) Over 6 months by Bill Best

" Interesting article by James Dyson in the Telegraph this weekend (its was on the barber's chair!) on this subject. He takes a different view and I must admit I am in his camp. If someone invests time, effort, toil, brainpower and their own money in developing new inventions, they should be protected from others simply stealing the idea. I guess we agree to differ! "

In "A plague on both your houses" South Korean court finds for (and fines) both Samsung and Apple Over 6 months by Bill Best

" 'It has been unedifying, boring, expensive, largely pointless' I wonder if you would say that if it was your copy being ripped off and published elsewhere? "

In "A plague on both your houses" South Korean court finds for (and fines) both Samsung and Apple Over 6 months by Bill Best

" As a very sad and disillusioned BB Torch 9800 ‘smartphone’user – now consigned to the bin (I couldn’t even give it away) I can testify that they did indeed lose their way. There is something to be said for sticking to your knitting. They are still the masters of the mobile email platform and do other messaging quite well and better than most. The jump to smartphone maker though was just too big for them. It is a shame though. Nothing to celebrate in their troubles. "

In Bye, Bye, BlackBerry Over 6 months by Bill Best

" Does anyone remember when the EU (EC as was) was instrumental in supporting and creating the GSM industry in Europe which became the envy of the world and copied throughout it. The result was wealth and job creation and a valuable pan-European industry. Where are these visionaries today? The EU seems hell bent on destroying what its forefathers worked so hard to help to create. "

In EC investigates possible collusion between Europe's Top Five operators Over 6 months by Bill Best

" Small cell economics would sweeten nicely for MNOs if they stopped asking for full OMS capability. It’s ironic that they keep the femto/pico cells production and factory costs high because of their insistence that it does it everything a macro cell can do, yet will happily offload traffic to unlicensed spectrum on Wi-Fi with no operational controls at all. This does have me scratching my head. "

In Mobile telcos set to offload 30 per cent of their traffic to small cells by mid-decade Over 6 months by Bill Best

" To return to a theme mentioned before here on rural broadband, the mishandling of new spectrum by Ofcom is the root cause of this problem. The delays in making spectrum available are bad enough but to then seek to raise huge amounts of money from the spectrum licenses compounds the problem (some of which they intend to subsidise cable/fibre operators with). What sort of free liberalised market is that please Mr. Ofcom? LTE can serve the rural communities very well indeed but Ofcom should be encouraging the market for this - not killing it at birth. "

In UK city dwellers get the choice lots of telecoms services. Country dwellers get Hobson's choice Over 6 months by Bill Best

" email delivery to the phone doesn't have to be this complicated and RIM obvioulsy have a 'solution' that doesn't scale (understatement). What worked for 5 million devices is creaking at 70 million so where do they go from here? One bright spot on their horizon is that the next 30 million customers are going to take an awful long time to acquire given them plenty of time to go back to the drawing board. "

In RIM: a company with Eg and Ham all over its face Over 6 months by Bill Best

" I have just had the 3 most productive work days in the last 10 years. Now why did I need that BB in the first place? The most worrying thing for RIM out of all this is that good 'old fahioned' pull email (i.e. get it when WE want it) is not such a bad option after all. Less email interupts = more work done. Who'd have thought it! "

In BlackBerry in a hell of a jam as system continues to crumble Over 6 months by Bill Best

" My first (and last) Blackberry phone is the Torch 9800 and I can say without a shadow of doubt that it is the worst phone I have had in 20 years so seeing the decline in their fortunes comes as no suprise to me at all. Outside of their email client comfort zone they are pretty much useless. "

In It's grim at RIM: Another bad quarter Over 6 months by Bill Best

" A bit of evidence to back up this theory would be nice. Its a finger in the air even if it an AVI finger in the air. "

In Wholesale predicted to drive 4G services Over 6 months by Bill Best

" Two things strike me. “the ponderous, monopolistic companies in this sector" is a damming indictment of his own parties privatisation policy (not to mention years of Oftel and Ofcom mismanagement) and also that there is no recognition that wireless will play a vital part in rural broadband – or at least it would if the government stopped looking at spectrum as a windfall for the Treasury. They can’t encourage rural broadband roll-out and raise a tax levy on the spectrum needed for it at the same time. "

In UK MP wants the out of work to dig big ditches for fat pipes. Fathead Over 6 months by Bill Best

" Sounds like Ofcom talking up the cost of spectrum! The UK Government has indicated it wants to raise £4bn in the spectrum auction and we are supposed to believe that they are trying to encourage 4G roll-out! Bizarrely where I live they are even giving subsidies and grants to ISPs to provide 'superfast' broadband in rural areas. You'd laugh if it wasn't so ludicrous. "

In UK regulator says 4G will deliver 200% capacity gains Over 6 months by Bill Best

" As someone living in a rural area and putting up with ADSL, this article depresses me. So Fujitsu will provide fibre to about 5 million homes (that’s not a lot) as long as the government gives them a huge subsidy. Meanwhile BT will provide fibre (if you beg for it) to 2/3rds of rural homes (that’s not a lot) but again only as long as the government pays. Is this how a liberalised free market is supposed to work? Meanwhile the same government bleeds mobile operators dry and demands outrageous fees for selling spectrum so that it can give the money raised to fixed line operators to poor down the drain (sorry duct). It seems to me that the only chance I have of getting fast broadband in my rural area is through LTE and perhaps the government should remember that this is supposed to be a free market and stop robbing Paul to pay Peter especially when Peter has no intent to really provide fast broadband in rural areas. Perhaps they should think about auctioning duct space as they do spectrum? This duct space was after all paid for by and large by the public when BT was a PTT. "

In Fujitsu proposes new superfast broadband network for rural UK in competition to BT Over 6 months by Bill Best

" So, Satoru Iwata confesses - at last - that proprietary hardware = inflated high cost of gaming software. The swing to smartphones, wider distribution of games and opening up of the market is good news for everyone. (Oh, except the greedy Satoru Iwata of course!) "

In Angry Birds makes Nintendo boss... erm... angry, actually Over 6 months by Bill Best

" Brother Bob is indeed a bit behind the times. The UK Government have already done this little tax wheeze. They took £24 billion in advance taxation from the operators for the pleasure of offering the SMS service. "

In Msg from Bob Crow: a penny for your thoughts Over 6 months by Bill Best

" You're right about what is cool one day is decidely uncool the next with teenagers and 20 somethings. Is Twitter the next to feel this? Has it 'sold' out to corporates and do the celebs actually get paid to tweet? Are the celebs just advertising in disguise and getting well paid for it? All of a sudden this doesn't look like a cool site anymore. "

In MySpace, MyMistake, MyLoss. MyEgg, MyFace Over 6 months by Bill Best

" Gosh, posted from California I think! "

In Spooked Nokia broadens offensive against Apple Over 6 months by Bill Best

" Well said but look on the bright side. With only around 28 parliamentary work days before a mandatory election, there is very little chance of this bill being passed. "

In “Necessity, the tyrant's plea"; John Milton Over 6 months by Bill Best

" I know what’s coming next. The ever caring, proactive, but unelected and unaccountable Viviane Reding (erstwhile commissioner for information society and media at the EU) will demand pan European regulation on anti suicide measures insisting that every operator introduce an active program to ensure all staff are happy and content and that their only worry in life is that Governments will stop organizing their lives for them. "

In The France Telecom suicide scandal (which probably isn't) Over 6 months by Bill Best

" When one2one pushed enhanced voice quality in the UK (Enhanced Full Rate Encoding) it bombed in the market place and I don't think anyone really hankers after better voice qaulity - especially for only some on-net calls to another compatible device. Sure if you ask any one if they would they prefer a higher quality anything they will say yes! Don't forget the Radio RXQ will have more impact on the call quality at the end of the day no matter what device is on the end of it. "

In Moldova calling: never mind the bandwidth hear the quality Over 6 months by Bill Best

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