General Discussion

About General Discussion

The purpose of the General Discussion area is for you to introduce any discussion topics relating to CMA and its members which do not fall into any one of the other forums.

For example, you might have an idea about how to improve our membership services, may want to raise a business issue with your peer group, or offer some thought leadership that we could use for future events.

Current Discussions

Digital Britain in jeopardy as power houses go abroad

Posted on: 31/07/09

Government plans to make Britain a world leader in the digital economy are under threat because high electricity prices are forcing companies to locate power-hungry data centres in other countries....

Posted on: 22/07/09

The Times reports today that the proposed use of phone tapping evidence to secure convictions in terrorist and criminal trials has been shown in secret tests to be unworkable, with real 'legal and...

Posted on: 23/06/09

City of London Police confirmed to me today that the National Fraud Reporting Centre hopes to be operational in Spring 2010. That they will do a pilot and then roll it out nationally. In 2008...

Posted on: 14/01/09

Unless concerns addressed, converged services likely to remain the domain of the enterprise Bracknell, 15th December 2008 Research from Viatel has today shown that unless cost, reliability and...

Posted on: 09/12/08

Ofcom presents their analysis of the telecoms sector, specifically looking at investment and innovation during this difficult economic period. They refer also refer to the regulation of wholesale...

Posted on: 04/12/08

Viviane Reding , the EU Comms Commissioner wants more ICT investment to help end the current financial crisis. Addressing a conference in Lyon, Reding insisted that cuts in public and private...

Posted on: 20/11/08

Everyone wants to talk about compliance - once a 'nice have', now a 'must have'. It's often difficult to know what you don't know, and yet the law always argues that 'ignorance is no defence'. What...

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