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Earlier this month FCC made available a draft “Next Generation Connectivity” (links to pdf) by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society on Next Generation Access Networks and the policies endorsed by various nations in respect to broadband connectivity.
What clearly stands out in the study is the acknowledgement of the significance of efficient open access [...]
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A few days ago the Observatory for Information Society in Greece released its mid-2009 report on broadband. For those not familiar with this publication, it is a biannual report on broadband developments in the country.
According to the report, Greece had, the 1st of July, 15,63 % broadband penetration (connections/100 inhabitants), which in absolute figures means [...]
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When faced with NGA policies, one of the biggest sources of “misunderstanding” and inefficient policy making relates to the inappropriate definition of broadband. What is, and what is not considered as broadband is a challenging issue for policy makers drafting NGA national strategies. This is because the level of speed, acknowledged by authorities as broadband, [...]
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Back in the old days of dialup we used to joke that if someone wanted to send a picture or, boy even worse, a video clip he should better put it in a disk and hand it over the next day rather than sending it by email. It would be faster, cheaper (dialup was priced [...]
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The good guys in Japan are driving the rest of us mad with their bold ambitious plans about their country’s digital future.
The current situation in the country is fairly simple. 1Gbps connections are already offered enabling users to download a movie faster than it would take you to ma ke a frappé . And of [...]
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Until recently the telecommunications market in the US was divided between two camps: the telcos (traditional telephony operators) and the cable companies. A recent trend however seems to change things drastically. Another type of segmentation is emerging in the country, this time between rural and urban carriers. Telecompetitor reports that incumbents are giving out their [...]
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This is the second part of Vint Cerf’s interview to Mike O’Connor. To see the first part check previous post. You can follow the interview on YouTube too.
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This is a video interview given by Vint Cerf to Mike O’Connor, member of the Ultra High Speed Broadband task force of Minnesota. It’s a relatively lengthy but it sure worths watching it all through. Vint Cerf approaches broadband policy in a very simplistic but effective way and makes his arguments clear and his key [...]
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The case of Lyse Tele, reported in this article published in Telephony On-line provides yet another practice by operators (both public or privately owned) to stimulate FTTH take-up. I’ll jump on the opportunity and make a short introduction for some nice and creative ways used worldwide to increase FTTH penetration rates. These methods are also [...]
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This is not the first time it’s happening to me. The office at the university is closed today, this time due to the eastern holidays. Since I drove all the way up here, I decided to get a coffee at this cozy spot, that shares my name near the campus with free wireless, excellent view [...]
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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.