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About a week ago ICF announced next year’s (2010) smart21 cities. 7 of these cities will be awarded the Intelligent Community award in January. According to ICF, “Intelligent Communities are those which have – whether through crisis or foresight – come to understand the enormous challenges of the Broadband Economy, and have taken conscious steps [...]
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The time is here. I am flying to St. Petersburg on Sunday morning, so early that I think it may be late Saturday night! I am speaking at ICUMT 2009 (12-14 Oct), an international conference, sponsored by IEEE for researchers, engineers, network planners and service providers in telecommunications targeted on newly emerging systems, standards, services, and applications.
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The INFOSTRAG group organizes their 5th consecutive annual seminar in Syros. This year the seminar is entitled “Leveraging on ICT and Renewable Energy Sources for the Development of Islands and Remote Areas” and I am invited to discuss the policy implications of municipal involvement in NGA.
The seminar is planned for next weekend 9-12/7/2009. Should you [...]
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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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A few weeks ago, Optronics announced the completion of the first FTTH pilot network in Greece, in the city of Karditsa. Optronics has also been awarded the construction of the city’s fiber MAN, funded under the Call 93 of Information Society Programm. The FTTH network in the city comes to underpin the city’s efforts for [...]
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I’ve read Rob Atksinson’s and George Ou’s article published in the latest FTTH Prism newsletter entitled “Why Municipal Fiber Hasn’t Succeeded“. The authors argue that municipal broadband has not been successful because municipal broadband initiatives have not proven to be financially viable. The argumentation is persuasive at first reading; however, I’d like to take a [...]
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In Switzerland, a small pilot project has been announced by EWB, the energy/water public utility of the city of Bern. The pilot will connect 50 households and 10 businesses with fiber. Unlike the example of EWZ (the energy/water utility counterpart in Zurich) “les Bernois” plan to feed 2 fibers per end-point and are considering policy [...]
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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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Earlier this year the cabinet (the minister and the secretary general) of the Ministry of Communications has been replaced, due to a major Government cabinet shuffle. At that time, the fears that this change will affect the pace of the ambitious FTTH project for the 52 largest cities of Greece does not seem to materialize [...]
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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.