Tech on C&P

O2’s mobile broadband seriously takes the “fun” out of “barely functional internet connection”

How’s that two weeks coming, O2?  the two weeks you need to enter a single config item that allows me to switch on broadband?  Seriously, what could possibly take so bloody long that you need two weeks?  ”not long now” is what your service people say — I think that only works with children and people who blindly trust others.

HSDPA is only usable in batch downloads of email, where latency over a second is not a serious problem.

Update 2009-08-11: August 11 is a week from Jul 24, according to BT. BT tells O2 “in a week”, O2 tells customers “2 weeks” to be safe, and we’re… 18 days. Nice going, BT