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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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Amsterdam which was officially given a thumbs-up by European Commission to build an open fiber to the home physical infrastructure only in late 2007 , an approval process that lasted almost 12 months , has now announced a new agreement between initial shareholders and Reggefiber/KPN (Earlier in 2008, KPN acquired control of Reggefiber which is [...]
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In an effort to bring you the most up-to-date information on broadband developments around the world, I’ve decided to enrich the content of this blog with insight and opinions from key broadband experts. The first topic I plan to cover in a small series of interviews is municipal broadband. And I couldn’t think of a [...]
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In Broadband Cities 2008, one of the things that didn’t attract significant publicity and international attention like e.g. the signature of the iNEC declaration on Open Access by the Hellenic Central Union of Municipalities and Communitites was the creation of the first digital society in Greece. In the evening of the first day, 11 municipalities [...]
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The City of Argyroupoli, is a south suburb of the greater Athens metropolitan area. This average size municipality (~33k citizens) is completing next week its ambitious plan for creating a citywide mesh wireless broadband access network – Arnet. Arnet offers broadband connections to citizens and travellers of up to 2048/2048 symetric. The wireless network has [...]
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“Municipal & Utility Guidebook to Bringing Broadband Fiber Optics to Your Community” is an insightful publication by Public Technology Institute which aims to serve as a reference point for local authorities that want to bring broadband reality into their communities. The study includes an analysis of four US municipal broadband projects, namely: Bristol (Virginia), Burlington [...]
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Last weekend I visited the island of Naxos, during a long business/holidays weekend of October. Well, there is fibre in Naxos and here’s the proof for it. Check the picture at the end! All public buildings (hospitals, municipal services etc) are equipped with fibre access, and a metro network spreading across the centre of 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.
