I came about this today and I thought you might want to know. WIK Consulting is organizing a 1.5 day event (26-27 April in Berlin) to discuss some of the most debatable topics of the FTTH world:
What are the key objectives, elements and instruments of the different national broadband strategies?
What is the actual role of [...]
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Last week I read the latest WIK’s consulting report on NGA. The news coverage mentioned that a Germany-wide FTTH deployment would cost 120 billion euros and that an FTTC+VDSL deployment would cost approximately 40 billion euros. The news article did not make clear to the percentage of coverage these figures referred to.
The article ignited the [...]
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The Ministry of Infrastructure released this Friday a public consultation regarding the tender for selecting the national FTTH project’s consultant. The consultant will undertake a techno-economic analysis on the project and will have to provide input to the ministry regarding the proposed business model and plan, sustainability study, sensitivity analysis and so forth.
There are a [...]
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Last week EPOE, a copyright protection authority pressed charges against the administrators of a Greek owned torrent site (greek-fun.com). After the police arrested one of the owners most of the torrent sites with Greek owners, voluntarily, shutdown (temporarily as it is rumored in the underground scene) resulting in an almost 70% slash to the average [...]
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Costas Troulos is a telecoms analyst and passionately covers wireline broadband and related developments in Greece and the rest of the world. For the last 4 years he has been involved in several consulting and research projects on public broadband investments, FTTH and metro network deployments. His is interested in everything related to telecom regulation/policy, national strategies and NGN business models.