From the monthly archives:
With DT’s offer apparently to fall off the table on May 7th negotiations are presumably heating up.
Reports from the DT- OTE front are the favorite story on newsstands these days. Here’s a short review of what’s the negotiations status so far according to Telecom TV.
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A colleague has pointed me to this interesting development in France reported in this article.
Although this option is in-sync with our suggestion for “Broadband Ready Buildings” – BRB [see NETMODE's presentation at EETT Broadband Forum referred in a previous post], the interesting part remains under which terms and conditions a law like that can be [...]
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I’ve read it at “International Herald Tribune” and since DT is negotiating a 25%+1 shares of OTE with the Greek government I thought you might want to be the first to know.
District courts rejected DT’s appeal to not unbundle its fiber optic network, including its new multi billion VDSL broadband network to rivals.
Federal Cartel Office [...]
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Few weeks ago I posted about OECD’s Forum on fiber investment and policy challenges, at Stavanger.
OECD has released all presentations on the Workshop’s site. Most of them are very interesting, some compelling! I recommend to everyone involved in the fiber broadband gig to visit the site and run through the presentations, at least.
Personally, having been [...]
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EETT has recently made available the presentations and minutes from the “Broadband Forum: A Dialogue for Broadband Development”, held last February at the Caravel Hotel, Athens.
In the Forum’s web page, you can find the minutes and all presentations of the day [in Greek].
In the same spot you may also find [in Greek] the presentation of [...]
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Ebusiness Forum and the Federation of Hellenic World (FHW) are presenting the new initiative of Tim Berners-Lee [The creator of World Wide Web] on May 6, 2008 16:00. Guests speakers are professor Wendy Hall, ACM VP, and professor Niegel Shandbolt. The presentation will be held at Tholos, the virtual reality theater of “Ellinikos Kosmos”.
You can [...]
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I was browsing through a pile of news and blog posts when i stumbled upon “Copyright debate walks the plank” article by Steve Mullins on telecoms.com.
Steve starts from the decision taken by European Commission to not favor customer disconnection by ISPs, if alleged for digital piracy to argue that content owners ought to collaborate with [...]
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On Friday 18th of April, Europe’s ICT policy strategy mid-term review for 2008 was released.
Here’s some interesting remarks from the press release:
In 2007, the Internet attracted nearly 40 million new regular users in the EU (now 250 million in total). In the last five years, ICT has had a big impact on public services, especially [...]
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Picking up on from a previous post and comment and after reading Michael Geist’s European Parliament Votes Against ISP “Graduated Response” post, discussions set off with some colleagues relating to similar practices (by either access or content providers).
Here’s some personal opinions and food for thoughts and further debate:
I feel pretty much assured that such requests [...]
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Δημοσιοποιήθηκαν προ ημερών, από το επίσημο site της ΕΕΤΤ τα αποτελέσματα της δημόσιας διαβούλευσης για τα δικαιώματα διέλευσης. Τα αποτελέσματα μπορείτε να διαβάσετε στην αντίστοιχη ιστοσελίδα της ΕΕΤΤ ή απευθείας από εδώ.
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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 anything related to telecom regulation/policy, national strategies and NGN business models.