Based on the lack of blog posts over the last month you might have thought I was busy, and your right, i’ve gone through the stress of a house move, this post is based on Dan, the consumer who is moving house.

Being the technointernetaddictedcommunicationuber geek I am, the most important first thing on the To-Do list when moving was arranging transfer of existing Phone and Broadband connections. To start with I initialized migration of my phone line on April the 16th, (with me moving in on the 18th), when I arrived to my new property the BT line was already under use by the previous owner.

This ownership meant I had to be subjected to a wait of Two weeks to transfer the line and activate it for me, after waiting for the phone line I then had to request transfer of broadband to work on my new registered address which is hopefully going to be enabled on Monday. So this means its been nearly Three weeks without any form of communication to any of the services that are only and solely available with a phone line and copper or as some marketing divisions of technology providers like to call…the “cloud”!!!

Moving forward I kind of hope this situation improves, we have an emergence of technology that is building heavy reliance upon cloud based services, some of which have over the years had the roadmap visions of moving and operating your apps and data into a centralised Internet based cloud environmnt with nothing but a screen and internet connection in your home connecting to that.

I am sure processes that are required to move me to a new part of the provider Infrastructure is probably due to various antequeted business processes matched with an aging backbone network thats held together with loom and copper, however unfortunately without ubiquitous and seamless connectivity with Cloud services this type of length of effective outage will fail.

Whether communication methods such as IPTV and WIMAX can take off to support movement and fluidity between both your home and when you are out on the road when utilising such architectures is another question, however unless this improves in the next 2-3 years (which I suspect seeing as its been like this for 3-5 years it won’t) we probably are going to lack any serious development in such areas of technology for the consumer.