Thursday, July 19, 2012

Earlier this month, Openreach announced the full commercial launch of its fibre to the premises (FTTP) range of products. From the press release:

"The full set of wholesale products, which range from 40Mbps to 330Mbps downstream and 2Mbps to 30Mbps upstream, will allow Communications Providers (CPs) to differentiate themselves in the market by offering a wide range of fibre products to suit the needs of small and medium businesses as well as bandwidth-hungry consumers. These products, which have only previously been available to CPs on an ‘early market deployment’ basis, will initially be available within the 15 exchange areas where FTTP infrastructure has been deployed to date. However, this availability will improve as Openreach expands the FTTP network to other exchange areas and explores the optionat is Black Special (Two up from White).

The most unpleasant occasion was when I was taking photos near the Bank of England in the early '80s. A hand grabbed my collar and literally dragged me down an alley. It was a police sergeant who pushed me against a wall and proceeded to question me for about half an hour about what I was doing, why I was there, who I was working for. Cunt!

The most ridiculous was on a beach in Cornwall at Constantine Bay. It's about half a kilometre long and there were about 30 people left on the beach just before sunset. I was waiting with camera on tripod for the sun to just kiss the horizon when a lifeguard came up to me and told