During one of the conference breaks in Lisbon, I had the chance to catch up with Kai Seim who runs Kai Seim & Partners, an active consulting firm in Germany. Kai Seim & Partners issued the “Fibre in Germany” last year that covers broadband infrastructures development in Germany. A nice read if you haven’t bought [...]
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For the last years, due to probably professional perversion, I have questioned most of (if not all) the assumptions of broadband/NGA/FTTH techno-economic studies.
One thing that never felt entirely right is how we factor population density in cost functions. We use inhabitants per sq. mile/km (area metric) to estimate costs while we express the results (networks [...]
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Hellas on Line, the primary fixed broadband competitor of OTE, the Greek incumbent, announced that it passed the 300,ooo subscribers mark. This figure refers to local loop unbundled connections. The figure is substantial and if you take into account the fast pace by which the company has been connecting customers the last year I am [...]
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On my way to Lisbon and while I waited in Madrid for my transit flight I met with Fransisco Joya, the Strategy Planning Director of Citynet. Fransisco is a cool guy and very much involved in Citynet’s international expansion. He was kind enough to meet with me for a coffee at Plaza de Mayor (the [...]
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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.