From the category archives:
I have been meaning to write about that for a while, and have always postponed.
In http://www.broadbandmap.govt.nz/map/ there is a map that gather data available from various sources to provide information about the demand and supply of broadband infrastructure across New Zealand. The first instance of the map has been online since 2007 and has been [...]
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The purpose of this post is to put a few observations regarding the services options available to public planners of NGA infrastructures; for future reference. This is only a draft on benefits and risks for public offerings on Layer 1 and Layer 2 services.
National broadband plans (i.e. nationwide NGA infrastructures) concentrate primarily in building an [...]
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Thailand swings with the idea of investing in FTTH infrastructure on Open Access principles. Alcatel-Lucent presented to Thailand’s Minister of ICT the case of a passive (unbundler/wholesaler) operator on the footmarks of Singapore and the plans of Australia.
Thailand has 63.52million population and 19 million households. Despite the ICT intensity of the national economy there are [...]
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NetIndex of Ookla reported yesterday the household download index as it is calculated from SPEEDTEST.NET measurements.
What clearly stands out is the trend of speed increase the last 6 months (for whom the study reports).
There are a few things not truly I was surprised to see in the reported data, probably the biggest surprise came from [...]
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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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A few weeks ago, Info, the journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunications, information and media of Emerald Press published my article “A business model for municipal FTTH/B networks: the case of rural Greece” co-authored with colleague Vasilis Merekoulias and prof. Vasilis Maglaris.
The article proposes a business model for municipalities for the establishment and [...]
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I can’t write too much recently, work has been over my head, however, I still keep track of FTTH developments and I like spotting new blogs on FTTH. Once they were few, now they are so many; it seems.
So, if you speak French, feel free to check out on Fibre Optique France. They post often [...]
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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 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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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.