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A mega ultra reader of this blog pointed me to a great video clip made by Corning that shows a future made of glass. All more often I come across short movie clips demonstrating the impact of high-speed broadband, cloud computing, service mashups and so forth to our every day life. I want to post [...]
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This is a great clip created by Novay for the positive implications of a high-speed broadband, connected world. Have a look, you’ll like it: link
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In south Hungary, very close to the borders of the country with Croatia and Serbia there is village called Boly. Boly has nearly 4000 inhabitants and 2000 homes, but it has high-speed broadband access. The project started in 2007 and the video below documents the socio-economic impact of high-speed broadband as experienced by the users [...]
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This week I spent two days at the beautiful city of Budapest where the FTTH Forum 2011 was held. On the 8th of November, during the pre-conference very lively discussions about the FTTH technical and construction solutions as well as its business challenges were held. Special thansk to Greg, Csaba, Akshay, Adrian, Cornel, Khaleel, Ketam, [...]
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Nigeria decided to explore the option and design its national broadband plans on the basis of open access models. According to authorities, they want to separate the network to three layers, the passive infrastructure, active equipment and retail services. You can read more here: http://www.biztechafrica.com/section/government/article/nigeria-adopts-open-access-model-broadband-strateg/1376/. Government intervention for broadband development in Africa needs serious attention. [...]
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The time for the FTTH Forum 2011 is closing fast. This year, the Forum is held in Budapest the 8 and 9 November. I will be delivering the pre-conference workshop on the 8th which will frame in one frame all the stakes of an FTTH project. The workshop is packed with information about the technologies [...]
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In a press release coming from the ITU, the Broadband Commission for Digital Development of the United Nations has agreed on four targets to ensure that the global population has the opportunity to engage in the emerging digital society. Quoted from the press release, the new targets cover broadband policy, affordability and uptake, in terms [...]
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The European Commission has proposed to spend almost €9.2 billion from 2014 to 2020 on pan-European projects to give EU citizens and businesses access to high-speed broadband networks and the services that run on them. The funding, part of the proposed Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), would take the form of both equity and debt instruments [...]
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That’s a nice video clip, sponsored by Vodafone that illustrates the benefits of broadband in rural and isolated areas. The transition from none to decent connectivity makes the difference. It presents the case of an Italian rural village and an oil factory. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l705X49-emA
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The International Telecommunications Union announced today that the standardization of the Ultra High Definition TV specifications are near completion. That means that soon (or, ahem, a little later) UHDTV products will enter the market (I’m sure that one of the upcoming Bond films will feature one of these TVs). UHDTV has 16 times higher resolution [...]
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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.
