tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post5280179074816079903..comments2023-09-28T13:28:52.243+01:00Comments on Raedwald: UK's Copper Cage is a national disgraceRaedwaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11699610899843349594noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-7096338092895772602019-02-14T09:13:55.509+00:002019-02-14T09:13:55.509+00:00Graeme nails it I think. I can recall the posters ...Graeme nails it I think. I can recall the posters put up by 'concerned' citizens ;concerned more about their houseprices than any mythological health risks I suspect because many of the same MS Word '98 Poster templates have been reused for the campaigns against wind & solar farms.jack ketchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921268825653615322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-58430883716501093742019-02-14T08:29:01.865+00:002019-02-14T08:29:01.865+00:00Pictures came out when South Korea was getting wir...Pictures came out when South Korea was getting wired up with loads of cables going from roof to roof, building to building. UK consumers would not accept this kind of visual overhead, which either means burying cables or setting up line of sight microwave links <br /><br />When the emergency service network was being built in 2003, just about every mast required a lengthy planning enquiry. We had a panel of experts whose job was to go to local planning meetings and discuss the alleged risks with the community. As with fracking, all sorts of bizarre stories were propagated such as infertility, tumours, birth defects, inability to sleep or concentrate, brain defects all brought about by the "massive" radiation caused by mobile transmission sites.<br /><br />In retrospect, I am amazed Vodafone and Cellnet ever got their networks built. Orange got round it by using the ITV masts. <br /><br />It seems we all want mobile phones but not if there is a mast anywhere near human beings. Graemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11007306140530173428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-79699764225424092332019-02-13T05:03:26.963+00:002019-02-13T05:03:26.963+00:00This is no different to my coverage in W. Virgina....This is no different to my coverage in W. Virgina. Get used to living in a s**thole country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-38436347082550155492019-02-12T09:51:01.105+00:002019-02-12T09:51:01.105+00:00FT - biker's paradise here, and they're va...FT - biker's paradise here, and they're valued and liked by the natives as you probably know, but there's also a lot of lycra about. <br /><br />The Hochalpenstrasse won't open again until May, but when it's a corker. Raedwaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11699610899843349594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-23529463493848950692019-02-12T08:57:35.524+00:002019-02-12T08:57:35.524+00:00O/T, but nice replacement pic, Raedwald. Remember...O/T, but nice replacement pic, Raedwald. Remember it well from my motorbiking days. Including dawdling on down the northern side towards Salzburg, minding my own business on a beautiful, beautiful day, doing a gentle 60mph or so - and being overtaken and left for dead by some bloke wearing half an ounce of lycra and polystyrene, on a pedal bike. formertoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06787382608124662939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-13960461502103528022019-02-12T05:20:40.898+00:002019-02-12T05:20:40.898+00:00
Ordinary analogue voice land lines are due to be ...<br />Ordinary analogue voice land lines are due to be switched off by BT/Openreach in 2025.<br />https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/19/bt_pushes_ahead_with_plans_to_switch_off_traditional_telephone_network/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-56895837947104382752019-02-11T23:18:28.816+00:002019-02-11T23:18:28.816+00:00Bloke in North Dorset :
I expect the Germans know...Bloke in North Dorset :<br /><br />I expect the Germans know better than us how to defeat the system and perhaps the EU doesn’t even know about many of them.<br /><br />It took testing in the US to discover the massive German diesel emissions testing fraud.<br /><br />Germany is ranked top with Spain as the EU countries with the most infringements of EU directives and laws.<br /><br /><br />John Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01368536835090304923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-56656049193131210432019-02-11T21:36:32.911+00:002019-02-11T21:36:32.911+00:00John Brown,
The problem is that if State aid is c...John Brown,<br /><br />The problem is that if State aid is challenged and you lose its the recipient that has to pay the money back, not the government, as Apple has found out. The MNOs were well aware of the problem and wouldn't agree without approval from the EU.<br />Bloke in North Dorsetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-63173102877275390502019-02-11T21:02:15.520+00:002019-02-11T21:02:15.520+00:00That's privatisation for you Raed.
A service ...That's privatisation for you Raed.<br /><br />A service provider ONLY exists to make money. Actually providing the service is an undesirable cost, so kept to the legal minimum.<br /><br />Do you understand the Laws Of Physics, Simon, btw? Of course you'd get a signal there, even if nowhere else in the country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-37795471065272731822019-02-11T19:55:32.990+00:002019-02-11T19:55:32.990+00:00It's not all bad. I walked up to Top Withens t...<br />It's not all bad. I walked up to Top Withens this morning - for the air not the literature - and there atop the highest point in the South Pennines a wonderful clear mobile signal, 4G and everything.Simon Cookehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12586896340482296341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-25284048058564024432019-02-11T18:08:03.246+00:002019-02-11T18:08:03.246+00:00Bloke in North Dorset :
“The first challenge was ...Bloke in North Dorset :<br /><br />“The first challenge was to define market failure to make the project EU State aid compliant.”<br /><br />I expect no other EU countries will be taking any notice of these rules and will be bending them when they want, especially the Germans.<br /><br />I can remember when one German company with whom I worked got state subsidies during difficult times by writing “commercial reports” on their industry for the German government and for which they were very well paid.<br />John Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01368536835090304923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-36238587728445595212019-02-11T17:28:43.727+00:002019-02-11T17:28:43.727+00:00https://www.amazon.co.uk/Backroom-Boys-Secret-Retu...https://www.amazon.co.uk/Backroom-Boys-Secret-Return-British/dp/0571214975<br /><br />This book, that I must have bought by accident, was very informative, in a layman, scratch the surface way, about how the UK telecoms network came to be at all. And I was fascinated. That chapter and the one on how the video game Elite managed to cam infinity into 48k of memory, were the best.<br />Well worth a pick up for the engineers here. {Of which there are many.}<br /><br />As for my rural second home. Tallest house in the village. So can get mobile coverage like it was the 2000's in top floor rooms. None downstairs.<br />This is typical for all residents. Some 4-5.000 people have very poor mobile.<br />And internet is poor. I manage 1.2-1.7 most days, but then the exchange is almost outside my door.<br /><br />Also, Freeview and Dab is basic. None of the 'london' stations. Eventhe nationwide 'london' stations.<br /><br />and until very very recently, maybe as little as a year, there was a stretch of the A303, a long stretch, around stonehenge where there was no radio. DAB or phone coverage at all. Probably no TV either.Tough its all farmland so of concern to a handful, as has been said.Bill Quango MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861116614665461655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-9434025095307398822019-02-11T16:58:23.789+00:002019-02-11T16:58:23.789+00:00Interesting article, Raedwald. Just wish you had s...Interesting article, Raedwald. Just wish you had said what distances are involved between places.<br /><br />The responses are enlightening, otherwise. I too remember being able, in my youth, to access 'public transport' from and through rural areas in the north of England - But once euros and other aliens took control of our utilities and communications . . .anon 2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-14922849789632135372019-02-11T15:33:58.063+00:002019-02-11T15:33:58.063+00:00When I go skiing in Austria there is superb coverg...When I go skiing in Austria there is superb coverge at the top of the mountains. I wish there weren't so that I didn't have to hear all the Dom Jolly's shouting into their phones!mikebravonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-79777008694616534302019-02-11T15:24:26.580+00:002019-02-11T15:24:26.580+00:00I would guess the reason for the disparity is much...I would guess the reason for the disparity is much more to do with cock up than conspiracy.<br /><br />It seems from what Radders says that Austria finds it relatively easy to grant permissions on its own lands compared to the UK's having to sweet talk endless individual landowners. <br /><br />Plus I suspect Austria is a country with weaker protections for private property and stronger eminent domain rules.Jack the dognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-2306804607367070982019-02-11T14:29:13.678+00:002019-02-11T14:29:13.678+00:00as far as i know, mountainous areas are more expen...as far as i know, mountainous areas are more expensive and difficult to cover. and mountains make poor antenna masts. so i doubt very much that that is your local phone mast, is most likely much closer and look like an ordinary mast.<br />the fact that Austria has such good mobile network coverage has only to do with investment, and regulations. <br /><br />Liberistahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11658623158127073573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-33822734514782201102019-02-11T13:57:15.921+00:002019-02-11T13:57:15.921+00:00"Landlords and communities seem to be more sy..."Landlords and communities seem to be more sympathetic than they do tworads big bad mobile phone operators."<br /><br />Speaking as a farmer who did have a mobile mast on his land up to a few years ago, until all the companies amalgamated their equipment onto one single mast somewhere else in the locale, I would say that the general attitude of farmers and landowners to the utilities (which category most would consider telecoms falls into) is that you can't trust them an inch, because they are always trying to shaft you, so no landowner in his right mind would believe them if they said 'We need this mast purely to help the locals, we won't be making anything from it, honest, can you do it for free?' <br /><br />For example I have no doubt that were a farmer to provide (say) Vodafone with a free mast site,as soon as it had been erected they're be renting out space on it to one of the other companies as well. All the utility companies are ****holes and all landowners despise them, we've all been treated like sh*t by them in the past.Sobershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11407417389022146963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-83151757097310634862019-02-11T13:38:46.775+00:002019-02-11T13:38:46.775+00:00One of the great advantages of living in East Angl...One of the great advantages of living in East Anglia is that cycling is relatively effort free, but that does seem to encourage pratts (like Peter Hitchens). Another is that with those webbed hands and feet, you can swim well if the place is flooded. Are the population of such places the prototypes of the marsh-wiggles of C S Lewis's Narnia?<br /><br />As for mobile phones, the network is immeasurably better than when they were first introduced. I live in a Londonistan area dormitory town, and for years, the mobile reception was terrible. It's great now, after a mast was installed a 100 yards from my house. Part of the problem is that of trains and buses: no point in providing the service where there aren't any users, and when the service is there and the demand swamps it, you have 2 (of the many) causes for complaint.<br /><br />I'd be prepared to bet that the service isn't great at the top of most Austrian mountains.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-10341220314162554452019-02-11T13:19:36.317+00:002019-02-11T13:19:36.317+00:00Churches make good sites for mobile and wireless I...Churches make good sites for mobile and wireless Internet suppliers and one of our local vicars was instrumental in getting his church used so that Internet could be supplied to the village. However, it is always and everywhere local because some communities object on the basis that porn might be carried.<br /><br />Don't hold your breath for 5G unless you live in a city, it will be a long time before its rolled out further and that will be most likely as part of an equipment life-cycle upgrade rather than to meet demand.<br /><br />One of the biggest problem to have slowed Internet roll out is BT protecting their monopoly. They have fought a weak Ofcom and weak politicians tooth and nail against every effort to make them invest earlier. They should have been broken up years ago and made to sell OpenReach.<br /><br /><br />Bloke in North Dorsetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-78122399549616873992019-02-11T12:59:25.364+00:002019-02-11T12:59:25.364+00:00I am sure R-W has it right, despite the interestin...I am sure R-W has it right, despite the interesting info from BiND. If they really wanted it done it could be done within a month.<br /><br />We are and always have been way behind, I think Lithuania and Latvia have the best download speeds in Europe but I recall back in about 2002 when BT was pushing its amazing 2mbps, to the the 25-30% of the country that could get it...at the same time South Korea had 16mpbs to the whole country and 70% of the population were users.Span Owshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10144861546996033462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-4522216804494541402019-02-11T12:22:14.684+00:002019-02-11T12:22:14.684+00:00Reference wireless Internet providers, and also re...<i>Reference wireless Internet providers, and also requiring Line of Sight to their customers</i><br /><br />Norfolk makes use of the multitude of churches dotted about the countryside:<br /><br />https://wispire.co.uk/Dave Wardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-24733266464629324662019-02-11T11:04:32.892+00:002019-02-11T11:04:32.892+00:00Our market town in northest North Norfolk (or '...Our market town in northest North Norfolk (or 'prop-paaa Naafu'k' if yew prefer) has recently had cause to celebrate, for finally we have been connected to His Britannic Majesty's Optical Telegraph Network so that news from the war in Crimea may be more speedily disseminated. <br /><br />Sarcasm aside, things will of course be better after brexshite. There will no doubt be FREE wall2wall 5G coverage as we will no longer be subject to the EU's regulation of our providers and their charges. I'm sure Vodacon et al are champing at the byte to offer us all absolutely free access to their networks.jack ketchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921268825653615322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-62797655405778388742019-02-11T10:49:05.533+00:002019-02-11T10:49:05.533+00:00Uhm, I've added a pic of our mobile phone mast...Uhm, I've added a pic of our mobile phone mast. Every home has one nearby. Most of the forests are owned by the State, so no consent problems. Siting of masts and equpment just isn't a problem here - our 3 providers are A1, T-Mobile and Drei-AT ('3' in the UK)<br /><br />But now I can start to see the problems in the UK. Raedwaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11699610899843349594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-73116697807802788012019-02-11T10:22:05.763+00:002019-02-11T10:22:05.763+00:00Raedwald, is / are the 4G network / s in Austria ...Raedwald, is / are the 4G network / s in Austria owned by the operating companies, or is it a sort of nationalised setup on which the operators rent bandwidth?<br /><br />I'm not punting for nationalisation - I'm old enough to remember the horrors of British Steel, Post Office Telephones, British Rail and half the UK car industry - but BiND makes in teresting points about CPRE, English Heritage, local authorities, planners and a horde of other hangers-on all having to have their involvement. Is the situation similar in Austria or does local decision-making trump the bureaucracy?formertoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06787382608124662939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-31723569841243646022019-02-11T09:52:43.196+00:002019-02-11T09:52:43.196+00:00From what "Bloke in North Dorset" was sa...From what "Bloke in North Dorset" was saying, it would seem that I am correct in regard to my initial comment.<br /><br />We can't have people talking to each other, that would never do.<br /><br />We can of course give landlords anything they want when it comes to hosting arrays of bird chomping windmills or fields of solar powered frying pans..<br /><br />If it is on our agenda, we can do anything.Stephen Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16628822966183977715noreply@blogger.com