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It was the first time I was at the FTTH Council’s conference and it was really an excellent opportunity to get first-hand the pulse of the industry and meet tons of people that I read, hear about or work with yet knew until now only by the looks of their social avatar (Pauline, Kai, Fredrik, [...]
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Unless you have been living under a fat rock for the last couple of weeks you should probably know about Google’s announcement to build an FTTH network. If this still does not ring a bell you can read Benoit or Stephen’s take on the topic.
What has been absent from the enormous news coverage is how [...]
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I came about this today and I thought you might want to know. WIK Consulting is organizing a 1.5 day event (26-27 April in Berlin) to discuss some of the most debatable topics of the FTTH world:
What are the key objectives, elements and instruments of the different national broadband strategies?
What is the actual role of [...]
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Minister of Infrastructures & Networks Dimitris Reppas officially confirmed recent rumors and executives sayings that the national FTTH plan will be postponed for one year.
It is worth noting that the FTTH plan is one of the few projects of the previous government that the Socialists intend to carry on forward. The largest and most ambitious [...]
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I was thinking of a way to celebrate One Web Day. A couple suggestions for a collaborative activity failed thunderously (lack of time and bad schedule), so I decided to go after a friend’s suggestion to put together a short note arguing why a government (in our case the Greek government) should invest/fund in FTTH [...]
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Last weekend I saw the national FTTH project making it to the weekly mainstream newspaper covers. This often indicates that the big thing is at the gates!
Today, Mr. Stylianides, the minister of communications, gave a press conference about the project. The ministry released, in writing, a series of details about the project, the most [...]
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OTE’s CEO Panagis Vourloumis announced this Friday (10/7/2009) that the organization decided to set in motion its VDSL roll-out plans “as soon as possible”. According to organization’s top executive, national FTTH plans face bureaucratic delays and OTE “can’t wait any longer” [Check Reuters and Adslgr.com].
OTE has been testing VDSL for a long time. And while [...]
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Part of my work involves keeping a detailed directory of all active FTTH projects worldwide. Germany was one the European countries I had little information registered in my detailed addendum. All that until recently, when I finished reading the “Fiber in Germany” study prepared by Seim & Partner.
The authors, Sabine Finke and Kai Seim, provide [...]
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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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Earlier this week, during the 2nd FTTx Telecom Strategies Conference, Dr. Leonidas Kanellos, president of the ministry’s committtee for the Greek FTTH project, presented the draft guidelines of the legislation which is prepared and ready to be put on open consultation in the coming days. I have not much to comment about although I see [...]
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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.