Spectrum Safari!
Previously I’ve written about why experts find it so hard to agree on spectrum regulation. However there is one aspect of spectrum that I haven’t touched on and that is the fact that radio waves are...
View ArticleThe Morality of Openness
I feel like my moral compass is broken. Like many things that break, I put the first aberrations down to anomalies, exceptions that prove the rule. But just as a real compass doesn’t point to true...
View ArticleThe Future of Open and How To Stop It
In 2008, Jonathan Zittrain wrote a book called The Future of the Internet and How To Stop It. In it he argued that the runaway success of the Internet is also the cause of it being undermined, that...
View ArticleOpen Access Infrastructure and the Cost of Mistrust
Recently I’ve been writing about the relationship of openness and trust in open movements which has led me to think more about the strategic role of trust in general. Now I find that almost every...
View ArticleMapping the Unserved
As connectivity becomes increasingly valuable to everyone, access to communication is becoming as important as access to other kinds of basic infrastructure. As a result there is an increased urgency...
View ArticleThe Case for Open Data in Telecoms
The landscape of telecommunications is changing. The mobile revolution is maturing and entering a new phase of slower growth. The rapid spread of fibre optic networks is increasing the ability of...
View ArticleOpen Telecom Data – Moving Forward
Introduction The value of being connected to a communication network is steadily rising. More than a decade ago researchers established that simple proximity to a communication network was directly...
View ArticleWhy Telcos Must Be Open About Their Infrastructure, And How It Could Connect...
The telecommunications sector is worth billions of dollars and increasingly underpins every aspect of our lives, from education to commerce to family life. Yet, there is little public information...
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