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AI opportunity action plan

High Ambition for AI Powered Britian and No Ambition for its Reliable Mobile Delivery is Not Going to Work

The Government’s 2025 AI Opportunities Action Plan is an exciting vision. It is exactly what the country needs – riding a strong technology wave to higher economic growth and better vital public services, such as the NHS. It has changed the game for mobile infrastructure strategy: lifting the bar on mobile data speeds is no longer strategically important — what matters now is lifting the bar on network reliability. On this measure, the UK’s mobile infrastructure is in a poor state.

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One of the hardest things to do is to reverse the habits of a lifetime. The mobile industry, with the support of governments and national regulators, has spent almost its entire lifetime looking upwards to the next higher band in the spectrum to continue its high data speed success story. But that path is no longer economically sustainable.

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The pressing need across Europe is for pro-investment mobile regulation. This book describes, for the first time, what a pro-investment mobile regulatory framework might look like.

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Casting the Nets provides an unparalleled insight into the great digital transformation of Britain’s communications networks over the period 1984-2004. It gives a graphic description of industrial policy-in-action and brings to life what is involved.

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The most authoratative history of digital mobile phones, from the first ideas jotted down on paper to the global phenonemon it is today, is meticulously detailed on this web site.

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