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UK Network Operators' Presentation

Wednesday, June 6, 2012 - 10:08

I was invited to present to the UK Network Operators' Forum today on the implications of the Digital Economy Act for Network Operators. I'd been warned that it was a highly technical audience, so I was pleasantly surprised how many people were already aware of the legislation.

Of course, if you turn a group of smart technical people loose on a process description, they'll find lots of ways to break it! It seems that it's not just educational networks that are going to stretch the Act's relatively simple model of how internet access is provided...