Day 2 – Session 2: Innovation in Networks: Next Generation Access Networks Nicolas Curien, member of the Board of ARCEP gave interesting insight to ARCEP’s future regulation priorities regarding NGANs. If I got this straight, ARCEP is currently analyzing the French... (Continue reading)
Day 2 – Innovative Applications of Broadband Internet Session 1: Innovative Regulatory Measures for Competition and Broadband Market The session discussed Functional & Structural Separation from many perspectives. The speakers common conclusion was that Functional/Structural separation may be attractive but it is... (Continue reading)
Day 1 – Session 2: Regulatory Challenges for Broadband Innovation Chris Fonteijn, president of OPTA and member of the board of the ERG presented the Dutch situation as an effective (impressive) broadband duopoly: 94% households are served by cable 99% households are... (Continue reading)
This weekend I followed the 3rd Annual Conference for Broadband Internet organized by EETT. This year, the conference’s theme was on “Innovation in Broadband Networks & Services”. Although I planned to participate in the conference last minute emergencies have prevented... (Continue reading)
On the 29th of May the 1st open meeting of Ebusiness forum Id3 Workgroup on FTTx was held at the President Hotel, Athens. 35-40 representatives of public & private sector came to the meeting which was, I think, a great... (Continue reading)
Excerpts from the public consultation text follows: At the 2007 Spring European Council, the Heads of State and Government highlighted the development of a sustainable integrated European climate and energy policy as a top priority and adopted an energy and climate... (Continue reading)
Earlier this week, the preliminary results of Ministry of Communications & Transport taskforce for the strategy for Electronic Communications industry in Greece were released. All stakeholders are invited to comment and opinion on the preliminary results. The consultation ends on... (Continue reading)
A directive on Electronic Communication Services Quality Indicators was issued on 13th of May by EETT. Operators will be required to monitor a series of quality indicators and publish them on their web sites respectively. To assist end-customers in service... (Continue reading)
Yesterday I read Robert Atkinson’s “Framing a National Broadband Policy“, a very good introduction to the challenges, benefits and implementation tradeoffs of a National Broadband Policy. In my view, the best parts of the paper are: Section IV: where the author explains... (Continue reading)
“Always room for fiber” by John C. Tanner provides an excellent overview of southeast Asian & Pacific national strategies to promoting FTTx. It uses a good compilation of global statistics (such as FTTH Global Rankings indicated in previous post) and... (Continue reading)