From the category archives:
During one of the conference breaks in Lisbon, I had the chance to catch up with Kai Seim who runs Kai Seim & Partners, an active consulting firm in Germany. Kai Seim & Partners issued the “Fibre in Germany” last year that covers broadband infrastructures development in Germany. A nice read if you haven’t bought [...]
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On my way to Lisbon and while I waited in Madrid for my transit flight I met with Fransisco Joya, the Strategy Planning Director of Citynet. Fransisco is a cool guy and very much involved in Citynet’s international expansion. He was kind enough to meet with me for a coffee at Plaza de Mayor (the [...]
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James Boyle, co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain discusses the biases and virtues of openness and copyright/fight. It is a must see, especially if you are in the (printed or electronic) content creation and distribution business.
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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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This is the second part of Vint Cerf’s interview to Mike O’Connor. To see the first part check previous post. You can follow the interview on YouTube too.
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This is a video interview given by Vint Cerf to Mike O’Connor, member of the Ultra High Speed Broadband task force of Minnesota. It’s a relatively lengthy but it sure worths watching it all through. Vint Cerf approaches broadband policy in a very simplistic but effective way and makes his arguments clear and his key [...]
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Just before the end of 2008 I arranged an interview with Marc Duchesne, an intriguing blogger and fiber enthousiast that has been involved in the municipal fiber network of the region of Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the south of France. I met with Marc on twitter and we have been chatting occasionally on fiber issues ever [...]
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Last week I had the opportunity to meet with Bas Boorsma and interview him about the Connected Urban Development (CUD) program. Bas Boorsma is the program director of CUD in the city of Amsterdam. To be honest, when I say “we met” I mean that I virtually met him using a broadband connection and Cisco [...]
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A few days ago I came across the work of Alexandre de Streel on EU telecommunications regulation, published in the latest issue of the Journal of Telecommunications Policy. In light of the contemporary review of EU regulatory framework, the author attempts a review of the EU policy in electronic communications and provides some powerful insight. [...]
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In an effort to bring you the most up-to-date information on broadband developments around the world, I’ve decided to enrich the content of this blog with insight and opinions from key broadband experts. The first topic I plan to cover in a small series of interviews is municipal broadband. And I couldn’t think of 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.