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The Broadband Netherlands 2011 conference was very interesting to me. One reason was because probably the entire Dutch telecommunications market was represented in the audience which gave me the opportunity to grasp what is happening in the fiber market in the Netherlands. The Dutch have already three competing platforms underground, cable, DSL and FTTH and the layer [...]
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I was involved and did some extensive work on municipal broadband strategies for the last few years. A part of my work was published in the latest issue of the Journal of Telecommunications Policy with the general theme ‘Public Support for the Deployment of Next Generation Access Networks: Why, when how‘. Perhaps it’s not that [...]
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I am leaving for the Hague in a few hours where Telecompaper holds its annual Broadband Netherlands conference. The conference addresses a major dilemma of the Dutch market, and that is ‘what’s next?’. How can a market as developed as the Netherlands can take the broadband market to the next level. I will be speaking [...]
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The long awaited negotiations between the Australian Government and Telstra came to a successful end according to abc.net.au. The deal involves AUS 11 billion and breaks down to: 9 billions for accessing Telstra infrastructure – including pits and ducts – to avoid duplication; and 2 billions towards dealing with structural separation issues, including setting up [...]
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This is an excellent report that compares fiber deployments and in particular the reasoning behind it in USA and Europe. The cases of open access networks in the Netherlands and UK are presented vis-a-vis the integrated approach of AT&T and Verizon dominating the US. This is a great reference point. Special thanks to @hermanwagter, who [...]
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The next big thing in the web is going to be semantics and personalization. While the current “version” of the web (i.e. 2.0) focuses on collaboration, user generated content and information sharing, web 3.0 aims at creating (ideally in an autonomic and automatic way) information from scattered data in different locations. There’s a bunch of [...]
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I was doing a little houskeeping on the blog the other day and decided to check up on the stats. It’s been quite a while since the last time I did that and found many interesting facts. Here’s something nice: the top 10 articles in Broadband Prime, ordered by popularity. Only one is in “My [...]
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The best thing that ever happened to mobile industry was social media.
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If you are one of the few remaining people in the industry that hasn’t yet received a copy of “The World of Fiber” report by Diffraction Analysis make sure to claim your free report here! The report covers practically all FTTP deployments across the globe as long as they offer 100Mbps connection speeds and above. [...]
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Carlota Perez, the keynote speaker to address FTTH Council’s conference in Milan earlier this month, made a very simple yet powerfull observation. Looking back to all 5 major industrial revolutions periods she divides each revolution era in two consequtive periods, one financially led and one production-led. The two periods are divided (or perhaps, more accurately [...]
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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.
