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WITH the holiday season just around the corner, businesses across Northern Ireland are no doubt preparing for some well-deserved down time.

BACK in September, I wrote about the impending ‘Copper Switch Off’ – that is, the plans to shut down the entire copper broadband and telephone line network across the UK in favour of fibre.

YOU will no doubt have read some stories, or at least seen the headlines, over recent days about plans by BT to upgrade landlines across Northern Ireland to digital technology.

LAST month, I wrote about the now 30-years old birth of the internet that heralded the beginning of a period of incredible advancement in technology and communications.

THE UK government recently announced plans to pump millions of pounds worth of investment into creating “world class digital infrastructure” that it said would pave the way for a “better, more secure, more prosperous future”.