* Posts by BSmith

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Disaster strikes Doyenz disaster recovery cloud

BSmith

Cant trust....

You can't trust them if you don't know where your data is and where to get to it...

But if you do know where it is and how you can get to it if there is a problem with the service?

http://www.arkivum.com

Those guys seem to offer you a copy held with a third party that you can get if things go wrong.

Seems sensible enough and should cover for most of the cases where having a copy yourself is put as the solution.

4G interference will knock out Freeview

BSmith

Ofcom are not fit for purpose

Stop being greedy!

Get the phone operators to reuse some of their 2G or 3G bandwidth to offer 4G.

From the digital switch over site "2013 final" shows that mendip will have the BBC A MUX on 61, right in mobile phone land and since there is a nice big phone transmitter on the hill, then I guess that will wipe out anything in coverage range of that hill.

Brilliantly thought out guys, how much have you trousered to allow this to happen?

Isn't part of your mandate to prevent frequencies being unusable due to this sort of thing?

I personally don't see the need for 4G, but even if you do, it's still a bit of a joke to allow something everyone uses to be battered by an incremental step in something few have a real need for (if you accept that 2G and 3.5G do fine for phone and data on the move).

Time to write to my MP about OFCOM being incompetent:

http://www.writetothem.com/