From the category archives:
According to today’s People’s Daily Online, China Telecom just launched a 3-year strategy within the general plan “Broadband China Optical Network City” to interconnect with fiber optical links all the cities in mainland China. Obviously, the plan comes in support to the company’s FTTH/B plans announced in 2010 based on GPON gear from Ericsson and [...]
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This video makes people happy and willing to allow the “ugly” FTTH installations in their homes. It’s all in the message!
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Just before Christmas the Special Secretariat of Digital Plan (Ministry of Finance) issued a public consultation on the RfP for managing the public metro+FTTGovernment network infrastructure which was built across the country from 2004 to 2009. The RfP is very detailed and the consultation aims at clarifying the specifics of administering and expanding the city [...]
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This week, with a brief statement, Forthnet and HOL announced the end of another round of merge negotiations. The companies have allegedly discussed a few more times in the past the potential for a merger. Until now they haven’t been able to reach a concluding agreement. HOL on the one hand, has substantially invested in [...]
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Telstra’s deal with the NBN Co to lease/wholesale a part of the incumbent’s infrastructure to the government-led project was discussed today at Telstra’s annual general meeting. The deal is expected to bring wider and cost efficient underground deployments of NBN while it is estimated to send 11bn of cash to Telstra’s deposits. The financial magnitude [...]
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About a week ago the FTTH Council run a webinar presenting research findings on the socio-economic impact of fiber broadband in Bulgaria. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to watch it live so I found it, kudos to Pauline, on vimeo. You can watch the presentation at the end of the post, but before that, here’s a [...]
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Here’s a short interview of Harold DePriest, CEO of EPB, on Market Watch, providing insight on EPB’s decision to spend almost 300M dollars in FTTH and smart grid. It explains the reasoning about sharing costs across projects (FTTH & smart grid) and bundling end-user services across their customer base.
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The European Commission issued on Monday 20/9/2010 the new (and final) Recommendation on regulated access to Next Generation Access Networks [C(2010)6223]. Also, the Commission circulated the related communication C(2010)472 with title “European Broadband: investing in digitally driven growth”. The two documents elaborate and explain the vision and the implementation strategy envisaged by the European Commission [...]
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OTE builds its FTTN+VDSL (pilot) sites. And we have pictures to prove it! After a short pilot in the area of Piraeus, OTE started deploying fiber ducts for its FTTN+VDSL network in Zografou, (an area near the university campuses, completed packed with apartments rented to students). Adslgr.com has the story and some nice pictures. OTE’s [...]
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The business case of FTTH/B for alternative operators seems much better than a standard techno-economic assessment would suggest. Usually, the FTTH techno-economic models make assumptions for a clean-cut FTTH development. In these premises, the network deployment costs and (most importantly) ROI period and IRR are estimated on the basis of an ARPU forecast for a [...]
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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.
