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The interview brings some insight to Orascom Group’s global strategy. Orascom is already present in the telecom market of Italy and Greece and according to the CEO’s own words the forthcoming consolidation of smaller players is an inevitability that will provide business opportunities for the Group (to op as a consolidator in this anticipated market [...]
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On May 13th EarthLink announced that is shutting down Philadelphia WiFi Network. Philadelphia WiFi Network has been often referenced as a unique business case of cheap municipal wireless broadband network; and it was started with a lot of fanfare. Yet, the facts proved otherwise. Most of the analysts argue that it was EarthLink’s business model [...]
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In article “DigiTV takes on prescriptions” I read about the case of the Looking Local service. Essentially, the service allows citizens to manage the applications for repeat medical prescriptions, query the General Practitioner (GP) and request a status update, electronically. In this local community, visits to GPs for repeat prescriptions (prescriptions that are repeated due [...]
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I’ve read it at “International Herald Tribune” and since DT is negotiating a 25%+1 shares of OTE with the Greek government I thought you might want to be the first to know. District courts rejected DT’s appeal to not unbundle its fiber optic network, including its new multi billion VDSL broadband network to rivals. Federal [...]
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I was browsing through a pile of news and blog posts when i stumbled upon “Copyright debate walks the plank” article by Steve Mullins on telecoms.com. Steve starts from the decision taken by European Commission to not favor customer disconnection by ISPs, if alleged for digital piracy to argue that content owners ought to collaborate [...]
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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.
