From the category archives:
Unless you have been living under a fat rock for the last couple of weeks you should probably know about Google’s announcement to build an FTTH network. If this still does not ring a bell you can read Benoit or Stephen’s take on the topic.
What has been absent from the enormous news coverage is how [...]
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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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Yesterday, European Court of Justice (EJC) added the latest chapter in the surreal dispute [1] between DT and german regulator on the one side and the European Commission on the other about the effective grant of regulation holidays to the german incumbent.
It all started back in the 2006 when the german watchdog took the bold, [...]
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I was on my way to an appointment figuring out new view-points and reasons why we must consider seriously the option to allow sharing of the NGN physical infrastructures (e.g. open access, unbundling and the like) and not simply let/allow/encourage/facilitate anyone to digg at will, when there before my eyes saw the hardest evidence I [...]
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OTE’s CEO Panagis Vourloumis announced this Friday (10/7/2009) that the organization decided to set in motion its VDSL roll-out plans “as soon as possible”. According to organization’s top executive, national FTTH plans face bureaucratic delays and OTE “can’t wait any longer” [Check Reuters and Adslgr.com].
OTE has been testing VDSL for a long time. And while [...]
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When faced with NGA policies, one of the biggest sources of “misunderstanding” and inefficient policy making relates to the inappropriate definition of broadband. What is, and what is not considered as broadband is a challenging issue for policy makers drafting NGA national strategies. This is because the level of speed, acknowledged by authorities as broadband, [...]
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I often argue that fiber connections, or simply the availability of the adequate infrastructure to enable fiber connection increases the value of a property, home or complex. It’s widely acknowledged that, say, kitchen renovation or the addition of wooden floor in a house brings much more value than it costs. By the same token, fiber [...]
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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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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.