Ultra High Definition TV: Another driver for fiber broadband?

October 14, 2011

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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Back from the Hague

October 13, 2011

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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Factors determining municipal business strategies for fiber broadband

October 13, 2011

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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Speaking at Broadband NL 2011

October 10, 2011

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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Meet me at Data Centres Regional Forum

September 16, 2011

Next Monday, 19 September I am moderating the evening session “Fibre and Connectivity” of the Data Centres Southern  Europe & Eastern Mediterranean Regional Forum. The session aims at highlighting the commercial and strategic opportunities of data centers located in Southern Europe and East Mediterranean. The area is strategically situated between Europe, Africa and the Middle [...]

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GIG.U launched by 50 universities in the States

August 23, 2011

In the 28th of July the GIG.U initiative was launched in the US. From the information released so far, GIG.U assumes the role of the intermediary between the local communities around the participating universities and the telecommunications operators. In a nutshell, GIG.U will aggregate demand and then call operators to bid and compete to serve [...]

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Franchising 101

August 9, 2011

It has been a while since I posted on the blog. I am happy to break the radio silence to let you know about the newest report I wrote for Diffraction Analysis. It is called “The virtues and limitations of FTTP franchise models” and analyzes the fundamentals of contemporary franchising in the telecommunications business. Franchising [...]

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Telstra strikes a mega-deal with the Government

June 23, 2011

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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High on Fiber

May 24, 2011

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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Semantics, Relevancy & Internet Freedom

May 4, 2011

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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