From the category archives:
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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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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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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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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The Greek watchdog asked for comments from the operators regarding the new broadband marketing campaign of OTE. The incumbent came forward last week with an upgrade plan to reduce prices on the high-end of its fixed broadband portfolio. More specifically OTE plans the following: Upgrade 2Mbps/256k to 2Mbps/512k at no additional cost Upgrade 8Mbps/1Mbps to [...]
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Hellas on Line, the primary fixed broadband competitor of OTE, the Greek incumbent, announced that it passed the 300,ooo subscribers mark. This figure refers to local loop unbundled connections. The figure is substantial and if you take into account the fast pace by which the company has been connecting customers the last year I am [...]
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The Ministry of Infrastructure released this Friday a public consultation regarding the tender for selecting the national FTTH project’s consultant. The consultant will undertake a techno-economic analysis on the project and will have to provide input to the ministry regarding the proposed business model and plan, sustainability study, sensitivity analysis and so forth. There are [...]
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Last week EPOE, a copyright protection authority pressed charges against the administrators of a Greek owned torrent site (greek-fun.com). After the police arrested one of the owners most of the torrent sites with Greek owners, voluntarily, shutdown (temporarily as it is rumored in the underground scene) resulting in an almost 70% slash to the average [...]
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Last Sunday I watched the “el classico” of the Greek footbal via a High Definition broadcast from SKAI.gr, a pioneer radio/TV station of the country. With a 720p resolution and a relatively low bit rate (around 700Kbps) the broadcast made a decent watch. The thing is that it would not be possible to watch the [...]
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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.
