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Almost a year ago (29th of March 2010) NBN issued a Request for Capability Statement for the construction of its network. In June the 23rd after assessing the applications filled 21 companies were invited to bid for the tender. Nevertheless, a few days ago, NBN Co announced that it withdraws the tender, the head of [...]
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Have you ever noticed how NBN sounds like Amen? Here’s a noble prayer to Mike Quigley, CEO of NBN Co. Some people have humor: “Our Chief Quigley, respected be thy name, Your fibre kingdom come, may your plans become reality, on Aussie soil as it is in Korea, Give us this day our daily bandwidth, [...]
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Network Neutrality has emerged as a key influential factor of telecommunications regulation in recent years, due to primarily the equivocal practices applied by major telecoms operators to transit and terminating network data streams. The observation I wish to bring to the fore with this post is simple and straight forward and relates to the difference [...]
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Broadband has been increasingly influential to political life and political decision-making across the globe. This is no secret. A number of municipalities and city councils in USA campaigned, some of them far from conservatively, to attract Google’s attention for an FTTH pilot. City officials in Europe and US include broadband related issues in their political [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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.
