From the category archives:
The purpose of this post is to put a few observations regarding the services options available to public planners of NGA infrastructures; for future reference. This is only a draft on benefits and risks for public offerings on Layer 1 and Layer 2 services.
National broadband plans (i.e. nationwide NGA infrastructures) concentrate primarily in building an [...]
{ 3 comments }
Thailand swings with the idea of investing in FTTH infrastructure on Open Access principles. Alcatel-Lucent presented to Thailand’s Minister of ICT the case of a passive (unbundler/wholesaler) operator on the footmarks of Singapore and the plans of Australia.
Thailand has 63.52million population and 19 million households. Despite the ICT intensity of the national economy there are [...]
{ 9 comments }
A few weeks ago, Info, the journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunications, information and media of Emerald Press published my article “A business model for municipal FTTH/B networks: the case of rural Greece” co-authored with colleague Vasilis Merekoulias and prof. Vasilis Maglaris.
The article proposes a business model for municipalities for the establishment and [...]
{ 4 comments }
More than a month ago the public consultation on managing the public MANs (built in 68 cities in the country) concluded with intelligent remarks coming from the private actors, public authorities and even a good amount of informed citizens.
I think the major issue here is that there is a confusion about the Government plans regarding [...]
{ 2 comments }
In an interesting discussion about the cost of the NBN (National Broadband Network) during the Cebit Australia 2010 some part of the focus kept on the opportunity cost of not building the network, especially in terms of competitive disadvantage that Australia would suffer in comparison to other national economies.
In a similar and more provocative tone [...]
{ 2 comments }
The Special Secretariat for Digital Planning announced today the public consultation for the terms and conditions based on which an administrator for the city metropolitan fiber networks will be selected.
Currently the MANs cover primarily the center of each city and selected areas of interest in the urban periphery and hubs all public buildings and municipal [...]
{ 1 comment }
Internet is freedom; but what is freedom? Fredom is about minimizing the bad and protecting the good.
An inspiring speech by Lawrence Lessig at the Italian Parliament. Pointed by @PTsanakas, published on blip.tv.
{ 0 comments }
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 [...]
{ 1 comment }
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, [...]
{ 0 comments }
Minister of Infrastructures & Networks Dimitris Reppas officially confirmed recent rumors and executives sayings that the national FTTH plan will be postponed for one year.
It is worth noting that the FTTH plan is one of the few projects of the previous government that the Socialists intend to carry on forward. The largest and most ambitious [...]
{ 5 comments }
The bird
Get smart with the Thesis WordPress Theme from DIYthemes.
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.