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In an interview published today at TelecomTV, Australian Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy discusses Australia’s national strategy for broadband. The bidding process for the Australian NGN is completing at the end of this year. Watch the interview at the end of the post. Here’s the interview’s highlights: The project [...]
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Day 2 – Session 3: Innovation in Services Andreas Anastasopoulos, President of Greek Licensed Telecommunication Providers Association (SATPE) discussed the opportunities and challenges of Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs). He argued that MVNOs is the next best thing for service innovation in the telecommunications industry. The core argument behind that is that services and products [...]
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Day 2 – Session 2: Innovation in Networks: Next Generation Access Networks Nicolas Curien, member of the Board of ARCEP gave interesting insight to ARCEP’s future regulation priorities regarding NGANs. If I got this straight, ARCEP is currently analyzing the French market to evaluate the best type of regulation for allowing access to the FT’s [...]
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Day 2 – Innovative Applications of Broadband Internet Session 1: Innovative Regulatory Measures for Competition and Broadband Market The session discussed Functional & Structural Separation from many perspectives. The speakers common conclusion was that Functional/Structural separation may be attractive but it is not an a-priori straight-forward solution to the problem of NGA investment encouragement and [...]
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Day 1 – Session 2: Regulatory Challenges for Broadband Innovation Chris Fonteijn, president of OPTA and member of the board of the ERG presented the Dutch situation as an effective (impressive) broadband duopoly: 94% households are served by cable 99% households are served by KPN 50%-70% of households are served by alternative operators The Dutch [...]
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This weekend I followed the 3rd Annual Conference for Broadband Internet organized by EETT. This year, the conference’s theme was on “Innovation in Broadband Networks & Services”. Although I planned to participate in the conference last minute emergencies have prevented me from going. Luckily, this has not proven much of a problem. EETT has arranged [...]
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To conclude my report on AIT Workshop on “FTTx architectures, technologies, business and economic aspects” I have compiled a list of short & longer remarks I found intriguing from either speakers or attendants, and some personal conclusions: “GPON is chosen by most incumbents worldwide because it makes the unbundling process harder”, or as another speaker [...]
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One thing I like in life is Mathematics. And the best thing in Mathematics is numbers! In this Workshop much too many figures were provided from either academic modeling or corporate planning. Below are the major findings the way I jotted them down. Comments follow at the end of the post. 1. Dr. Ioannis Tomkos [...]
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On Friday the 11th April I attended the International Workshop: “FTTx architectures, technologies, business and economic aspects” organized by Athens Information Technology (AIT). It was an overall satisfying, well organized event that aimed at presenting 1) FTTx strategies, 2) operational and technical issues and 3) business and economic challenges faced or anticipated in broadband development [...]
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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.
