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November 10, 2008

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I have been overwhelmed with various reports the last couple of days. Here’s some of the most interesting.
Tariff Consultancy reports that FTTH with conventional triple play broadband services is priced comparably to traditional ADSL2+ services. European 100MBps FTTH connections are reported at monthly prices of 29-35 euros (although significant differences in pricing still exist). There [...]

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(WASHINGTON, DC) – With continued regional growth in fiber to the home (FTTH) market penetration, Asia consolidated its position as the global leader in the march toward next-generation broadband while the United States and Europe also continued to experience robust growth in FTTH, according to an updated global ranking issued today by the FTTH Councils [...]

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“Always room for fiber” by John C. Tanner provides an excellent overview of southeast Asian & Pacific national strategies to promoting FTTx. It uses a good compilation of global statistics (such as FTTH Global Rankings indicated in previous post) and market analysis to conclude on the development prospects of FTTx networks and the need for [...]

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With DT’s offer apparently to fall off the table on May 7th negotiations are presumably heating up.
Reports from the DT- OTE front are the favorite story on newsstands these days. Here’s a short review of what’s the negotiations status so far according to Telecom TV.

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On Friday 18th of April, Europe’s ICT policy strategy mid-term review for 2008 was released.
Here’s some interesting remarks from the press release:
In 2007, the Internet attracted nearly 40 million new regular users in the EU (now 250 million in total). In the last five years, ICT has had a big impact on public services, especially [...]

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Recently it came to my attention this interesting report issued by the world’s 3 FTTH Councils, which provides an up-to-date perspective on the FTTH/B penetration throughout the world. Surprisingly or not for many, two European countries (Iceland and Slovenia) were added to the “At Least 1% FTTH/B Penetration” list. The list now sums up to [...]

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Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden are world leaders in broadband deployment with penetration rates over 30% at the end of 2007, says the European Commission’s 13th Progress Report on the Single Telecoms Market issued today. These EU countries, together with the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg and France, all had broadband penetration rates higher than [...]

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