The crappy state of rural UK broadband (circa 2010) is proudly on display here.
ref: https://www.ingenia.org.uk/Ingenia/Articles/c05470e5-337f-4b...
Maybe the FCC went all NYPD-World-Police on the UK - popped over there to run things for a while.
ref: https://www.ingenia.org.uk/Ingenia/Articles/c05470e5-337f-4b...
Maybe the FCC went all NYPD-World-Police on the UK - popped over there to run things for a while.
Seems like the Futisu team running Horizon decided to reinvent everything badly.
Much of government IT was being given to consultancies like Fujitsu/EDS in the 15 years since 1994. These contracts ended badly: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/1280096810/Why-did-EDS-c... especially for the public paying the bills.
Martha Lane Fox and the GDS pointed out the folly of this approach in 2010 https://gds.blog.gov.uk/story-2010/
They've done an amazing job overall, but hubris overcame them with things like Verify https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.computerweekly.com/news/252...