The Business Techie

It has been rumoured that the 50p per month telephone line tax has been shelved, at least until after the election.  I have long preferred the option of opening up the BT infrastructure to competition rather than using taxation to fund the expansion of broadband into rural areas.  I guess there is not enough cross party support to push this through in the rush to pass laws before the election. So…. let’s see what happens after May 6th.

This weekend Gordon Brown launched his key election pledges. One of these pledges shouted out to me – “to build a high-tech economy”.

Now,  I got quite interested in this  as I work in the IT industry.  But let’s stop and think about this for a minute.

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So, I have finally got the blog up and running.

At the request of a number of clients and colleagues I have set up this blog with the idea of writing about business, technology and pretty much anything else that springs to mind. It might even wander into politics every now and then!

Genuine comments will always be welcome – they will however be moderated.

So… here goes!