Government missed the G-Spot

News Bites
The expected revenue from this waveband auction was more than £1.1 Billion less than expected. Not surprising for a series of reasons. 

• Companies are getting used to Government hype

• It seems to be Government policy to do a lot of jumping up and down, and flag waving while they publicly overestimate potential income and underestimate expenditure. When they prove to be wrong, which is most of the time, they bury it under other more attention grabbing news.

• For the first time, they allowed a company early access, this gave all the other players in the telecoms business a more realistic picture of the potential take up.

We have to be careful here or we will be marketing victims as I have discussed in previous Blogs.

Very few of us really need 4-G - Its main use is for streaming video. The few people that really do need this facility would be paying massive bills if they were the only ones paying for it. So the idea is to convince all of us that we need it. That way the cost is shared between a large number of people. Those that really do need it, will then only pay a tiny fraction of what they would otherwise have to pay.

Not living in a major city, I often struggle to get 3-G, so I like many others will struggle even more for 4-G

Almost all current providers of 3-G offer very affordable unlimited internet access for £35 or less. Why should I now pay +£50 for limited access? Crazy!


Trainer Talk
Wednesday has felt relaxed after the last few hectic days. Written an overview for Paper Technics for a distance learning course

Not looked at my stable of YouTube videos for a while. Was surprised to see I now have 2384 views and 20 subscribers.


Prison Widow
At last we have been in contact with the banks business manager. The meeting with the web developer went well, and items for the shop have started to arrive.


Thought for the day

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research