Naive for our standards (is it really?), yet an excellent forward-looking video clip from the 1969. Found at itvt.com.
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From the monthly archives:
May 2009
Back in the old days of dialup we used to joke that if someone wanted to send a picture or, boy even worse, a video clip he should better put it in a disk and hand it over the next day rather than sending it by email. It would be faster, cheaper (dialup was priced [...]
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The good guys in Japan are driving the rest of us mad with their bold ambitious plans about their country’s digital future.
The current situation in the country is fairly simple. 1Gbps connections are already offered enabling users to download a movie faster than it would take you to ma ke a frappé . And of [...]
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Today is my Nameday – a day when your name is “celebrated”. It is a religious in nature custom (although there is nothing religious about it these days) which from what I am aware of is not very common in the western cultures.
As the day is cheerful today let me point you to everyhit.com should [...]
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It seems that the French plans for the infamous law to enforce telcos to disconnect users from the Internet when they are caught distributing/downloading copyrighted material after having been warned twice about, did some good for the telecom reform in the continent after all.
EU assembly has initially compromised for a softer understanding of user rights [...]
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Until recently the telecommunications market in the US was divided between two camps: the telcos (traditional telephony operators) and the cable companies. A recent trend however seems to change things drastically. Another type of segmentation is emerging in the country, this time between rural and urban carriers. Telecompetitor reports that incumbents are giving out their [...]
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Broadband Prime’s Top Picks is a weekly digest that brings you the top articles that I’ve read the past week. The focus of the digest is not on news, unless ground-breaking rather on opinions, analysis and comments by individuals or organizations relevant to the blog’s favorite topics. Hopefully, this is going to be a list [...]
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With all this attention on public broadband projects and Greece’e national FTTH project I haven’t blogged much about my other favorite topic: sustainable economic growth. Without looking for another excuse, here’s an excellent talk by Ray Anderson available at www.ted.com discussing the business case of sustainability. How a change from the (polluting) traditional industrial organization [...]
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An Interview with Stefanos Paschalides, General Manager of ArNET – Municipal Network of Argyroupolis
Some time ago I wrote about ArNET, the wireless network of the municipality of Argyroupolis. The project is intriguing by the fact that this is the only large scale municipal wireless network in Greece. So, I asked an interview with ArNET management and Mr. Stefanos Paschalides, General Manager of ArNET, and Mrs. Isidora Lazaridou, Development [...]
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Earlier this week, during the 2nd FTTx Telecom Strategies Conference, Dr. Leonidas Kanellos, president of the ministry’s committtee for the Greek FTTH project, presented the draft guidelines of the legislation which is prepared and ready to be put on open consultation in the coming days. I have not much to comment about although I see [...]
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