Cost is no object

There is a lot for the UK telecommunications industry to be getting a move on with at the moment. The Government is consulting on the future of cyber-security in the sector, we have the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill, pending consultations on the secondary legislation and Code of Conduct Read more

By Peter Farmer, ago

Data Protection? Mere box-ticking is not the answer.

T-Mobile. TalkTalk. Multi-billion-dollar telecommunications companies that wish they had taken their data protection obligations more seriously.  I know from experience that many organisations view regulations such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as burdensome red tape; a ‘box-ticking’ exercise that holds them back from doing business. But, Read more

By Peter Farmer, ago

Alphabet soup

LRIC, FAC, SAC… What do they mean? You could literally write a doctoral thesis about the different models used in economic regulation.  Academics in the field will likely shudder at the extent to which we boiled down the concepts in this piece, but that’s OK – the audience is not Read more

By Peter Farmer, ago

Dark Times Ahead? Maybe.

As a practitioner in the field of regulatory economics, there is one (and only one) guarantee I will ever give when talking about modelling or forecasting – that I’m wrong.  Granted, I sincerely hope that I am only ever slightly wrong, but there is no magic crystal ball. If there Read more

By Peter Farmer, ago

Early Adoption is Good!

I remember, way back in my early days in the tech sector, my mentor at the time saying “always stay a version behind“. Basically, his view was to let some other poor sods suffer the blood loss on the bleeding edge, and migrate in increments to stable versions.  The same Read more

By Peter Farmer, ago