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The Department for Culture, Media & Sport has published a new report that highlights the potential economic and infrastructure benefits to the broadband market of adopting any one of three alternative wayleave regimes, which might make it easier, faster and cheaper for ISPs and mobile operators to install new telecoms infrastructure.
A wayleave typically refers to the special agreement between a landowner and communications provider (ISP) or utility firm, which allows the operator to install, access and maintain cables or other related equipment on private land (especially useful in wide open rural areas). Sadly such deals are notoriously complicated and costly to arrange, which has encouraged the government to consider a more streamlined approach.
The Government are currently mooting three alternatives, one from the Law Commission that would modify the Electronic Communications Code (ECC), another that’s based upon the existing system used by energy suppliers and a regime similar to that found in the water industry.
Overall the Nordicity report claims that the Law Commission’s proposal would result in a moderate decrease of 10% in wayleave costs, while adoption of the energy sector’s approach would decrease costs by a more significant 40% and the watery industry’s approach would slash them by 62% compared to those under the existing regime (estimated over a 15 year period).
However the impact on overall costs of broadband infrastructure were found to be much less, ranging from 0.4% to 5.3%.
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Knowing what Europeans like Rémi Boulle bought for Christmas could spark the next trans-Atlantic trade battle.
Mr. Boulle, a 39-year-old math professor in the southwestern French city of Toulouse, shopped online for toys for his two little children—and says he was stalked afterward by toy ads, a common technique known as "retargeting." "It bothers me," Mr. Boulle said. "I don't want to be someone who is permanently followed around." U.S. technology titans have built up powerful positions in Europe by transforming everyday information about individuals like Mr. Boulle into one of the world's hottest commodities: data on everything from where they click online to where they go in real life. Now Europeans are punching back. France on Wednesday fined Google Inc. €150,000 ($204,000) for privacy violations, following a similar €900,000 fine in Spain last month. Italy is considering a controversial measure to force data-rich online-ad companies to pay more tax locally. France and Germany have pushed to create a "European cloud," which could keep personal information in Europe. The measures are the latest flare-ups in a long-simmering disagreement between Brussels and Washington over digital privacy and online profits, exacerbated by outrage over allegations of U.S. spying via American companies. Click headline to read more--
Imagine city leaders surveying Chicago after the Great Fire of 1871, a landscape of ash and ruin. Their task, as daunting as it must have been exhilarating: Build the city again, from the husk of what was. Build it better. Thirty-eight years later, famed civic architect Daniel Burnham offered his Plan of Chicago, a blueprint for building this city into a dominant economic and cultural force on the national and world stage. Mission accomplished. Today Chicago's muscular skyline and robust neighborhoods draw tourists from around the world.
But not far from these enclaves of affluence are neighborhoods poisoned by foreclosed homes, boarded-up businesses and empty lots, all of which spur an exodus of people. That poison spreads, imperiling healthier communities.
In October the Tribune launched a series of editorials to draft a new Plan of Chicago, encouraging solutions for education failures, joblessness, crime and other intertwined challenges that endanger the city's livability and future. We asked readers for their proposals to solve these problems. And they delivered.
In more than 700 proposals, readers embraced Burnham's admonition to "Make no little plans." On Dec. 15 we presented proposals for improving the prospects of Chicago's children. Today, we focus on the land, how the city and its people can better use vast swaths of Chicago's 231 square miles, reviving neighborhoods and fueling growth.
Several readers urged the city to live up to its official motto, "Urbs in Horto" — "City in a Garden." The idea: A campaign spearheaded by foundations, businesses and City Hall to convert polluted brownfields and other vacant lots into urban gardens that would not only provide communities in food deserts with fresh produce but also generate jobs and cash. Restaurateurs gladly would buy locally grown herbs. And why stop at crops? Urban farmers can raise fish. Or bees.
The benefits of creating farms and gardens extend beyond those neighborhoods. A 2005 Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs study showed that every dollar the state spent on cleaning up brownfields yielded $16 in private, local and federal investment.
So City Hall, foundation leaders ... what are you waiting for?
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Unproven problem but worrisome on real world copper. G.Fast achieves more bandwidth by using higher frequencies, overlapping the frequencies used in broadcast. The shielding on the cable is supposed to avoid problems, as is the provision in the G.Fast standard for "notches" to avoid using frequencies that cause interference. The "radio" division of ITU, which oversees broadcasting frequencies, was worried about problems and issued a report in April 2013. (below, from interference.org.uk).
It's possible that G.Fast in the field will work as expected. Because ITU proceedings are secret unless you pay $30,000 or so, I don't yet have the details on this. It's also possible that bad connectors or problematic copper leak seriously. LTE phones were not expected to be an issue with cable TV but are proving so in practice. OFCOM warned about this in 2011. httpbit.ly/1aLV3Ni. In November 2013, Time Warner Cable had problems if a Verizon LTE phone was used close to the set top. http://bit.ly/1aLV3Ni.
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In today’s world, faster is usually better. This is especially true in the enterprise. Access to instantaneous information and communications can be the difference between success and failure.
But a constant influx of new technologies can take its toll on network speeds. It’s essential that enterprises have a LAN infrastructure in place that can support the adoption of new technologies without sacrificing speed. Only then they can win the race to success.
Today, the majority of LANs are based on copper cabling, such as Cat5 or Cat6. While copper can deliver gigabit speeds, its physical limitations may prevent it from ever achieving speeds higher than 10 Gbps. Fortunately, enterprises already have a better option – fiber optics, or Optical LAN.
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We've recently seen electric city buses being tried out on routes in places like Germany, Sweden and Korea. On January 19th, however, a demonstration program will begin in the UK, which its organizers claim will be one of the most demanding ever.
The 5-year project will involve eight electric buses running 17 hours a day, covering a 15-mile (24-km) route in the large British town of Milton Keynes. While the drivers are on their scheduled mid-shift breaks, the buses will be parked over charging coils embedded in the road. Power will be transmitted from those coils to receiving plates located on the underside of the buses – just like the inductive charging setups already in use in most of the other previously-mentioned projects.
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Back in 2012, Ben Zevenbergen wrote a long piece exploring a complicated Dutch case that had been referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union, the EU's highest court. It concerned the home-copying exception of European copyright legislation, and hinged on the question of whether the Dutch collecting society could charge for the "losses" that result from people downloading both authorized and unauthorized uploads. That distinction needs to be made, since in the Netherlands downloading copyright material is permitted, but uploading it is not. Manufacturers of blank media claimed that they should only have to pay a lower copyright levy that covered just the downloads of legally-uploaded materials.
As is usual in cases sent to the Court of Justice, the EU's Advocate-General (AG) gives an opinion first. Although not binding, that opinion is usually indicative, and rarely ignored. Here's what the Advocate General P. Cruz Villalón has said in this case, as reported by the Future of Copyright site:
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In an interview with UK auto news publication Auto Express, Sachin Lawande, president of electronics and infotainment company Harman, acknowledged that the growing connectivity of new cars on the market is making it easier for hackers to hijack them remotely.
Harman reportedly develops in-car connectivity systems for "many manufacturers." Lawande said electronic control units (ECU) have lately begun growing from the cars' infotainment systems (touchscreen dashboards, navigation systems, or Bluetooth smartphone integration, for example) to the engine, transmission, and brakes. Lately, modern cars have come with ECUs controlling such systems as the engine control unit, electronic power steering, the battery management system, car doors, the transmission control unit, and the speed control unit, among many others.
For example, Harman told Auto Express the BMW 7 Series can contain about 140 ECUs throughout the car. When describing how the ECUs operate in modern cars, Lawande used some troubling language.
“It is already a serious problem,” Lawande told Auto Express. “The infrastructure of many cars was not designed with networking in mind."
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A an article showing of a giant squid with “radioactive gigantism” washed up on the coast of Santa Monica is a fake, but thousands of people shared and “liked” it on Facebook.
The article, titled “Second Giant Sea Creature Washes Ashore Along Santa Monica Coastline,” is from website The Lightly Braised Turnip, which appears to only publish satire articles.
About.com writer David Emery, who writes about Internet hoaxes, notes that the article is a fake.
The main photo–which shows the squid on the shore while people are gathered around–is Photoshopped.
The squid, which measures 30 feet long, was actually discovered on the shore at La Arena beach in Cantabria, Spain in October 2013. A photo of that squid was taken and was Photoshopped into the Lightly Braised Turnip satire.
“Scientists believe that following the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant an unknown number of sea creatures suffered genetic mutations that triggered uncontrolled growth – or ‘radioactive gigantism,’” the fake article reads.
The Lightly Braised Turnip appears to be a satire news site in the vein of The Onion, but it has no disclaimer identifying it as such.
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Cars don't need to have their engines running when they're stopped at red lights. That's why a number of automakers have developed start-stop systems, which stop a car's engine when the vehicle comes to a halt, and start it again as soon as the gas pedal is pressed. Bosch, however, is taking things farther. Its new start-stop system shuts the engine off not only at stops, but also whenever the car is coasting.
Putting it simply, the "start-stop system with coasting mode" turns off the engine whenever the vehicle can maintain its present speed by rolling. In other words, if the driver's foot isn't on the gas or brake pedals, the engine is off. A simple touch of either pedal causes the engine to instantly start back up.
According to Bosch, tests carried out by the company indicate that most vehicles could coast for about one third of every trip. If the engine was shut off for those periods, it would result in fuel savings of about 10 percent. Additionally, Bosch claims that if every new car sold in Germany were equipped with the system, "the theoretical annual reduction in CO2 would amount to over 30,000 metric tons" (33,069 tons).
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French network operator Orange has acquired a minority stake in the Japanese company G-cluster Global, as it looks to accelerate its mobile gaming push.
G-cluster already provides the software platform for Orange's hosted gaming service, currently available to about three million customers of Orange TV in France via fiber and copper broadband. The investment will help G-cluster with an international expansion, which in turn lets Orange introduce services in other countries, the operator said on Thursday.
Orange also plans to offer streamed games on PCs, smartphones and tablets, but there is no official time frame for when that will happen, according to a spokesman.
As traditional revenue streams like messaging and voice calls have come under pressure from competitive offerings, operators have started to look elsewhere for new ways to make money. Orange didn't announce any financial details of the G-cluster deal, but it is a strategically important one for the operator, which has previously invested in the Deezer music service and acquired online video site Dailymotion.
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Satellite broadband could shortly be supplying internet access with speeds as much as 10Mb, all over the UK;even if you reside in an isolated area where you are unable to get a fixed-line or mobile broadband connection. Isolated and rural areas have been suffering broadband woes for a very long time – that’s where satellite broadband comes in. Satellite broadband is a choice available for those users who live in rural or remote areas where traditional fixed-line based broadband services aren't available. At the moment satellite broadband technology accounts for only 2 per cent of all internet connections. However there are reports predicting growth in this sector, both in consumer uptake and product versatility. The worldwide subscribers are also expected to rise by a large proportion as prices plummet due to decreasing technology cost. Satellite broadband does not need a setup of cables or wires to connect your residence to the internet, which is a major advantage over standard connections requiring a wire based setup linked into telephone exchanges. Satellite broadband is the epitome of wireless-ness. There are three major satellite broadband providers in the UK, namely Tariam, Eutelsat and Astra.
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Can trade and commerce foster peace and mutual understanding between hostile governments? When it comes to the Koreas, this question may seem to be beside the point, given the ruthless purge now underway in the North. But it remains an essential consideration for the longer-term future of North Korea and other outcast regimes.
The Kaesong Industrial Complex, a joint venture of the North and South Korean governments, is both a tribute to the concept of diplomatic reconciliation through business and a difficult test of its feasibility. Roughly 50,000 North Korean workers are employed in 123 factories that produce about $450 billion worth of goods (mainly textiles, shoes, and household goods).
Kaesong is an expensive investment for South Korea, which provides capital and infrastructure, including a power station, a water purification plant, and a hospital. But, more than a decade after its inauguration, the complex runs at 40% capacity and has attracted only medium-size companies.
Despite generous tax incentives, South Korea’s huge conglomerates, the chaebol, have spurned the experiment, at least partly because of enduring transportation and communications problems. The complex can be accessed only through the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, which requires entry and exit passes. The lack of mobile-phone networks and broadband Internet means that South Korean managers must communicate with their headquarters by landline phones and fax.
Of course, commercial gain is not the only motivation behind the Kaesong complex. The South Korean authorities are rightly proud of the initiative, which they view as an investment in future reunification with the North.
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The India-Korea Infrastructure Development & Partnering Plaza 2014 summit will be held in Mumbai on January 15.
The event will see a delegation of about 20 South Korean companies visiting Mumbai to foster trade relations with the Indian counterparts, an official release said.
The event will witness a seminar and B2B meetings between the top South Korean and Indian companies for future investments in both the countries.
The participating Korean companies will represent key industries such as auto parts, power generation, water treatment and disposal, rail and metro, port logistics, smart city ICT technology and legal consultancy, among others. Click headline to read more--
As we move into the second week of 2014, most of us start to veer away from our New Year’s resolutions. (Who enjoys counting calories, anyway?) Instead, we shift our focus toward what’s really important: the Winter Olympics! Hosting this year’s Games is Sochi, Russia, and in order to arrange the best Olympic Games we’ve seen, the city needs to prepare for the masses.
With hundreds of thousands of people traveling to Sochi over the next few weeks, providing enough energy becomes a main concern. Organizers of the Games are predicting roughly 1,000 MW will be needed by the time the Opening Ceremonies begin, an increase of 560 MW from the city’s typical daily load.
With such a monstrous jump in energy consumption, one can only wonder how Sochi will be able to pull it off. According to the official Sochi Olympic website, several power stations are being built or refurbished in order to meet demand. “This will include three new thermal power stations in Adler, Kudepst and Dzhubga. The Sochi thermal power station, the Tuapse heating plant and the Krasnopolyanskaya hydroelectric power station will also be renovated.” To guarantee a constant flow of energy, backup power sources will also be installed near the venues.
Along with the updated power stations, Sochi is also going green and taking advantage of several environmentally friendly initiatives including LED lighting, solar power, air purification and decontamination systems, and the possibility of “green roof” installation.
Once again, Dow has teamed up with the Olympic Games to provide a system of sustainable solutions in order to make Sochi a success, and the first to provide a carbon-neutral travel footprint. Plans include projects that will work to offset the carbon emissions that occur during the transportation of athletes, spectators, and media personnel. For Dow, the main focus is on energy efficiency, renewable energy, and protection and restoration of ecosystems.
President of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, Dmitry Chernyshenko, stated:
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DT is having more problems than I knew. Deutsche Telekom is starting to build 12-24M lines of Vectored DSL, turning on 10 cities, But they aren't turning on full vectoring until second half of 2014. Belgacom is turning on vectoring in February, but throttling down the top speed to 70 megabits. Alcatel is still putting out press releases with how many "vector-ready" lines they have, but they clearly aren't ready.
Deutsche Telekom had promised regulator Jochen Homann they would roll 100 meg in 2013. In return, he rushed through new rules they demanded. They'd be stupid to embarass Homan unless they had no choice because the system wasn't working. DT isn't stupid. The software and probably the firmware on Alcatel's gear (and probably Adtran's) is not working right yet in the real world.
No one is giving me straight answers about what exactly are the problems; I know part of the trouble is interference from older DSL and data lines in the same bundle. DT is not replacing all the old ADSL and earlier VDSL modems in the field, meaning they have to make vectoring work with non-vectored lines in the same bundle.
DT tried to mislead the press about what's going on, writing a press release and telling reporters they are now delivering vectored DSL. But the lines peak out at 50 megabits; DT says they will see a speed increase to "up to 100 megabits" in the second half of 2014. It's almost certain actually they haven't turned on vectoring, but they haven't gotten back to me. Some of the German press was fooled but others are raising question.
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The town of Kiruna in Lapland, Sweden, is known for its Jukkasjårvi Ice Hotel and for hosting the recent Arctic Council summit. It also sits within the Arctic Circle, on one of the world’s richest deposits of iron ore. Now in danger of collapse due to extensive deep mining, the city center is to be relocated in a plan developed by White Arkitekter, which includes a new town hall by Henning Larsen.
Kiruna lies 140 km (87 miles) north of the Arctic Circle in an area rich in mineral deposits. The town is of great national importance in Sweden, not only due to the productivity of the mine, but because of its historic, 100-year-old buildings, its ties with the nomadic Sami people and because it’s an area of natural beauty. Internationally, too, Kiruna has become a known as a tourist destination.
The unprecedented new scheme will see the town center "migrating" to a new, more stable location, while community and transportation links are re-established through a forward-thinking plan of development and restoration. White Arkitekter says that it was the long-term strategy of this proposal that won the firm the commission. Since mining is set to continue, the difficulty lay in finding a location that would not become vulnerable in another few decades. The scheme involves a gradual process of building new structures on the eastern side, while dismantling those at the western edge of the town.
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Nissan's vision for London’s famous black taxi cabs got a makeover this week as the company unveiled its latest Taxi for London design. Based on Nissan’s NV200 platform and redesigned by Nissan's European design center in Paddington, the updated black cabs not only sport a fresh look, they promise cleaner transport for the city, with the old diesel engines giving way to 1.6-liter petrol and all-electric drivetrains.
Squealing brakes and all, the classic London black taxi is one of the defining images of the capital. It’s gone through any number of changes from the days of horse-drawn growlers and Hansoms, up through the boxy Beardmores and Austins of today, but the Hackney Carriages, as they’re officially called, are as much a part of the fabric of London as the lions in Trafalgar Square and Big Ben tolling the hours.
Still, time does pass and technology marches on, so Nissan and others figured that it was time to update the black cabs and move away from the smelly diesel engines towards something a bit more environmentally friendly.
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From Hurricane Katrina to the Polar Vortex which has buried large swathes of North America under snow, we're frequently reminded that when extreme weather hits, the results can be devastating. Tsunami House, by Designs Northwest Architects, has been built to withstand the worst nature can throw at it: high winds, storms, and yes, even a tsunami.
Located in a flood-prone section of Camano Island, Washington, the recently completed two-story (plus loft) waterfront home sits atop 1.5 m (5 ft) high pilings designed to take abuse from a high velocity tsunami wave. The ground floor, dubbed the "flood room," is a multi-use space which sports walls designed to break away if a tsunami hits, thus leaving the integrity of the upper areas intact.
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Spanish mobile operators Vodafone Spain and Orange Espana have reportedly initiated an integration of their respective mobile networks, in a move which can be seen as a response to a similar deal stuck between rivals Telefonica Espana (Movistar) and Xfera Moviles (Yoigo), local newspaper Expansion reports.
According to the article, the two wireless operators previously entered into a similar agreement to share their fibre-optic infrastructure in July 2013. The first stage of the new deal will see each operator dismantle around 1,000 base transceiver stations (BTS) in less populated areas and move its equipment to its partner’s infrastructure; further, Vodafone and Orange will be liable to half of the rental, security and maintenance costs.
As previously reported by TeleGeography’s CommsUpdate, in July 2013 Telefonica Espana, Vodafone Spain and Orange Espana signed an agreement under which they will share vertical fibre-optic infrastructures in buildings. Under the terms of the deal, the trio have detailed the types of buildings in which vertical infrastructures will be shared and the technical procedures that will make this possible.
For the second time in recent months, a giant sea creature has washed ashore in California. First it was a rare oarfish that had grown to a freakish 100-foot length. This time it was a giant squid measuring a whopping 160 feet from head to tentacle tip.
These giants look different but experts believe they share one important commonality: they both come from the waters near the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant in the Futaba District of Japan.
Scientists believe that following the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant an unknown number of sea creatures suffered genetic mutations that triggered uncontrolled growth – or “radioactive gigantism.”
Unfortunately, this cadre of mutant giants seems to be drifting towards the continental U.S. Local officials in Santa Monica, CA – where the creature drifted ashore – tried to calm residents. “This creature appears to be deceased and even if alive only thrives in water,” said Santa Monica Parks Manager Cynthia Beard. “We intend to move the creature in pieces to Scripps Research Institute so that they can study it,” she noted.
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Elio Motors is taking the next big step toward the production of its 84-mpg (2.8 L/100km) tandem three-wheeler. It won't quite make its original Summer 2014 start, but it plans to get Elios rolling off the lines next year at the former General Motors Shreveport Assembly and Stamping Plant in Louisiana.
In the wake of the purchase of the plant by the Caddo Parish Industrial Development Board, Elio is moving forward with its plans to rent 1.5 million sq ft (139,000 sq m) of space. Elio also mentions that part of the remaining 2.6 million sq ft (242,000 sq m) of plant space may be rented by some of its suppliers.
"This has been an extremely exciting week not just for me personally, but for the entire Elio Motors team," says Paul Elio, CEO and founder of Elio Motors. "We’ve had an incredible amount of momentum, which has led us to a new plant that will be the foundation for building the new vehicle. Plus, we also raised over $7 million to help us move forward."
"My dream has been to build a new kind of safe, reliable, fuel-efficient vehicle here in the United States. Acquiring this plant and all of the equipment in a fully operational state will allow Elio Motors to thrive right off the bat once commercial vehicle production begins in 2015." Click headline to read more and view pix gallery--
The cost of typhoon reconstruction this year could reach 138 billion pesos ($3.1 billion), more than 50 percent higher than initially estimated, as the Philippines seeks to build back better and put in safeguards for future disasters, the budget secretary said on Thursday.
The total cost of a four-year reconstruction effort may also end up steeper than the current estimate of 361 billion pesos, Florencio Abad said.
Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms to make landfall anywhere, reduced almost everything in its path to rubble when it swept ashore in the central Philippines on November 8, killing at least 6,190 people, leaving 1,785 missing and 4 million either homeless or with damaged homes.
"The plan was 90 billion (pesos) for the year, but I think it will be more," Abad told Reuters in his Manila office, adding typhoon-related spending would reach 138 billion pesos.
"I don't think they (reconstruction planners) have factored in the need to introduce resiliency. So that will be 10-30 percent more."
Apart from the immediate need for temporary shelter, providing jobs and restoring water, health and sanitation services, the government underestimated other costs, including that of identifying and documenting the dead before they are buried.
"There is an international standard for doing it, before you bury them, that wasn't factored in. That's a lot of money already," Abad said, adding the government could adequately finance a higher post-typhoon spending bill this year.
Manila has set aside funding of 54 billion pesos for the rebuilding effort from a supplemental budget passed late last year, this year's national budget, savings, calamity and other funds. At least 80 billion pesos more would come from concessional loans offered by the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and the Japan International Cooperation Agency.
"We can fund it. The question is can we absorb it? That is why we have to start early," Abad said.
Going forward, the Philippines, which is hit by an average 20 typhoons a year, is considering not only building typhoon-resilient structures but also permanent evacuation centers equipped with generators and supplies - an initiative that wasn't part of initial plans.
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In an effort to regulate the use of broadband UK broadband providers have introduced fair use policies.These policies are the way that providers control cyber traffic. The problem is that certain people may be hit harder than others; and not always fairly.Certain providers in the market are considered fairer than others. By knowing all the information about fair use policies you will you be able to find the best provider for you. So here you go… As the fair use policy was created to keep cyber traffic down, heavy internet users are the most commonly affected.The actual theory behind the policy is that certain people may be affected by the heavy usage of others. By implementing the fair usage policy low usage consumers will not be affected by the heavy usage consumers.The fact is that you are likely to be sharing your connection with around 40 to 49 other people.The usual maximum contention ratio for a broadband connection is around 50:1.This means that your connection could be affected by what 49 other people are doing.If one user is regularly affecting the internet of the other users then the service provider will do something. There are certain criteria which you can use to determine whether you are going to be affected by the fair use policy.People who download large files through peer-to-peer networks and online gamers are often affected.Others who use their home broadband for business might find their connections throttled. To avoid being affected by the fair usage policy you can try cutting down how much you use your internet.Of course this is not an option that most people want to adopt.Another option is to limit your high usage activities to times when other people will not be online.If you are downloading large files when no-one else is online you will not be as severely affected by the policy.
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