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Story: When narrow minds meet next-gen broadband

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Posted by: David Meyer (Tuesday 26 February 2008, 10:20 AM)

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Killer apps for fibre

The issue of applications is an incredibly frustrating chicken-and-egg situation. The pipe-providers definitely do want a hand in that scene (see BT's burgeoning apps marketplace) but at the same time they want to see a killer app before they invest in fibre. Kiyoshi Mori, the Japanese minister who spoke a month ago at the UK/Japan next-gen broadband conference, spoke very sensibly of "seed before need". If only his counterparts here were so clued up.

See this story for the perversity of it all: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39291006,00.htm

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