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The Future of Telecom is in Wales

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ma-bara-brith dept.

An anonymous reader wrote to mention a CNN Money story about the future of U.K. telecommunications. British Telecom is planning on rolling out an $18 Billion new system in 2010, and the first location to get the hook up is Cardiff, in Wales. From the article: "What's really cool about what will happen in Cardiff - and eventually the rest of the U.K. - is that BT is creating an open, standards-based platform for which anyone can develop new applications. In other words, the phone has the potential to become more like the Internet with its proliferation of cool new Web sites, tools and services."

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  1. Of course it is by Robotech_Master · · Score: 5, Funny

    The future of everything is in Cardiff, really. And so is the past. All bundled up in a police box with a flashing blue light on the top...

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  2. Blimey... by Clazzy · · Score: 3, Funny

    I never expected sheep and mountains to be the future of telecom. Scientists nowadays, eh?

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  3. Re:Writing Applications in BT? by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 3, Funny

    Uh, that's British Telecom.

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  4. Pot Noodles by Anne+Thwacks · · Score: 3, Funny

    At least it will create work for all those redundant pot noodle miners.

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