From the category archives:
In the island of Santorini (what a view!) the water and sewage utility company has installed and operates a distributed management system to monitor and control water resources which are scarce and scattered throughout the island. The project dates back a couple of years however, it is a good reference for the use of broadband [...]
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A hilarious ad by HKBN about the Next-Generation Internet. It features Graham Bell speaking Cantonese!
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The FTTH Council released a new video on FTTH uses and applications that simply rocks! Clink this link or watch it below in case you are still wondering what applications may justify an FTTH rollout!
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In the following video from a recent TED conference, Margaret Stewart, YouTube’s head of user experience, talks about how the ubiquitous video site works with copyright holders and creators to foster (at the best of times) a creative ecosystem where everybody wins.
The speaker talks about a case with Sony Corporation where managing copyrights [...]
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A few days ago the competent authority for audiovisual content in Greece enforced the stoppage of operation (and effectively shut down the broadcasting equipment) of SBCTV. SBC is a niche broadcasting TV station focusing on economic and business news.
Well, as it seems, this didn’t bother much the channel’s executives. SBC broadcasts timely via their website, [...]
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A while ago KPN got a stake in Reggefiber and the municipal network of Amsterdam as well numerous other municipal and/or city networks of Reggefiber.
A few days before we farewelled 2009 and welcomed spreads, austerity measures, IMF and the likes, DongEnergy, the largest power distribution grid in Denmark sold 60% of its FTTH assets to [...]
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Broadband has been often daemonized for being a service with strong financial burdens and a cumbersome return on investment for fixed operators. Broadband users keep asking for more bandwidth (which they often get at the same price) to imrpove their access to third party’s content. This increases the pressure to fixed operators to enhance access [...]
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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 24Mbps/1Mbps at [...]
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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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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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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.