Eric Hardiman, internet pioneer and plagerist, is developing a new technology offering for telephone subscribers on his Mum's road. The new digital service, labelled 'narrow band', breaks the mould of conventional subscriber services that promise customers faster internet connections and greater bandwidth. Narrow band, according to Hardiman, will be available to customers "through a dish-thing". He explains;

"Narrow band technology will allow us squeeze data, equivalent to an average workers network traffic , through a regular network connection, up to seven times slower than is possible today. The applicaitons are endless - transmitting business data......non-business data....the other types of data......to other places.....in business.....or not."

According to Hardiman the fact that narrow band transfers data slower than conventional technologies will be it's key selling point ;

"Consider", he explains, "people who want to send data to countries whose time is behind us"..."for example ordering a pizza over narrow band...from America...you places (sic) an order at two o'clock here for lunch and by the time they get it in Detroit, it's two oclock there....so your pizza is fresh in America".

Hardiman explains that the only inhibitor to universal adoption of narrow band is the lack of a means of "beaming" human beings instantaneously from one place to another. Accordingly Hardiman's consortium have invested in a second hand copy of Star Trek - The Original Season One DVD, from ebay.

Eric Hardiman lives in Naas, in a House.

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