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		<title>The politics of fibre</title>
		<link>http://connectedresearch.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/the-politics-of-fibre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 16:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alongside its annual results, BT announced its plans for an expansion of its investment in fibre earlier today. The clear link between the two is that the cost reductions and greater efficiencies identified in the company&#8217;s financial reporting have freed sufficient resources for an acceleration of the investment programme so as to allow a further [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectedresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7733079&amp;post=1999&amp;subd=connectedresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UN launches Broadband Commission</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 23:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Telecommunications Union, an arm of the UN, has set up a Broadband Commission whose aims will be to define strategies for rolling out broadband networks worldwide and to examine the applications for the improvement in the delivery of a wide range of social services. An impressive list of global private sector business leaders, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectedresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7733079&amp;post=1981&amp;subd=connectedresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>everything, everywhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 22:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Telecoms companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3 UK]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, it&#8217;s not going to be T-Orange after all, then. T-Mobile and Orange have resisted the temptation of the obvious and have decided to run in a completely different direction, calling their joint venture everything, everywhere &#8211; perhaps a slightly hyperbolic name for a mobile company, even if it is the largest one in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectedresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7733079&amp;post=1975&amp;subd=connectedresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PPF index shows a slight slip</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 20:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pensions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pensions Protection Fund published the PPF7800 Index today for the end of April, showing the state of health of the 7,400 pension schemes under its supervision. The Index is currently showing a small net deficit, of £2.2bn, reversing March&#8217;s small surplus (£0.3bn). Given the growing turmoil in currency markets during April associated with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectedresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7733079&amp;post=1970&amp;subd=connectedresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monti report proposes more centralised regulation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 16:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Telecoms regulation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://connectedresearch.wordpress.com/?p=1966</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an announcement somewhat overshadowed by EU finance ministers&#8217; agreement on a €500bn package for member states with solvency problems and to provide support to the euro as a currency, as well as in the UK by the will they-won&#8217;t they tea dance going on in Whitehall as I write, former European Commissioner Mario Monti [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectedresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7733079&amp;post=1966&amp;subd=connectedresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barking 51 BNP 0</title>
		<link>http://connectedresearch.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/barking-51-bnp-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 08:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now that&#8216;s what I call a result&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectedresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7733079&amp;post=1961&amp;subd=connectedresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OK, on with the show</title>
		<link>http://connectedresearch.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/ok-on-with-the-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 17:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communications policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though before we do, some interesting reaction to the overnight events picked up via TIGMOO by Anna Rose at Unison Active, as well as by Tom over at labour and capital. In what is otherwise, given its timing, likely to be one of my more immediately unread posts in the one year (next week!) that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectedresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7733079&amp;post=1952&amp;subd=connectedresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Election 2010: use your vote</title>
		<link>http://connectedresearch.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/election-2010-use-your-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 11:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Labour movement stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Will Straw at Left Foot Forward has a fair review of the campaign. And his conclusion is impossible to ignore: One thing is abundantly clear: whatever you do today, vote. Not turning out to vote means that the votes of extremists count double. Committed extremists are certain to vote &#8211; don&#8217;t give them your vote [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectedresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7733079&amp;post=1946&amp;subd=connectedresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Net traffic predicts hung parliament</title>
		<link>http://connectedresearch.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/net-traffic-predicts-hung-parliament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 15:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps Alex Salmond should look away now, but traffic to the official internet sites of the three main political parties looks eerily reminiscent both of the share of the vote going to each party, as recorded by recent opinion polls, but is also reflective of recent polling trends &#8211; up Labour, down Lib Dems. Coming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectedresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7733079&amp;post=1938&amp;subd=connectedresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Britain&#8217;s Digital Future II</title>
		<link>http://connectedresearch.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/britains-digital-future-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 16:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve now had a chance to listen to The Guardian&#8216;s Tech Weekly podcast I blogged about last week. Unlike some of the comments on the podcast page, which mostly seem to reflect continuing disappointment over the copyright and file sharing aspects of the Digital Economy Act, I thought this was an interesting and reasonably open [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectedresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7733079&amp;post=1929&amp;subd=connectedresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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