This week I spent two days at the beautiful city of Budapest where the FTTH Forum 2011 was held. On the 8th of November, during the pre-conference very lively discussions about the FTTH technical and construction solutions as well as its business challenges were held. Special thansk to Greg, Csaba, Akshay, Adrian, Cornel, Khaleel, Ketam, Ajmal and the rest of the participants for contributing to four very interesting and highly interactive sessions – more than I could ever hoped for. We may have skipped the last coffee break and left the room almost 40 minutes after the time initially planned, yet, personally, I enjoyed it a lot.
On the 9th, the day of conference, I liked mostly the frank presentation of Thilo Kusch CEO of Magyar Telekom who answered with remarkable honesty the questions of the participants and Robert Kennedy‘s provocative speech regarding the conditions that make a public subsidy of fiber access socially useful. It is always good to consider the alternative opinions; it helps build stronger arguments when you need them.
The famous James Enck (CFH), Rudolf van der Berg (OECD) and Dave Carter (MDDA) were also there that day expressing passionately their views on the role of private and public innovation and government’s steering towards sustainable fiber-enabled access markets.
Early in the morning, KPN’s plans to acquire the control of Edutel, XMS and Concepts ICT from Reggeborgh, and Lijbrandt from Reggefiber came in; not to much of surprise for the Dutch delegates in the room. I suspect that KPN’s plans to consolidate the ISP market (by acquiring those who have indirectly influenced already) will face the strong scrutiny of OPTA, and I wonder how/if the move can be justified before the Dutch regulator.
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