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Some time ago I wrote about ArNET, the wireless network of the municipality of Argyroupolis. The project is intriguing by the fact that this is the only large scale municipal wireless network in Greece. So, I asked an interview with ArNET management and Mr. Stefanos Paschalides, General Manager of ArNET, and Mrs. Isidora Lazaridou, Development [...]
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A few weeks ago, Optronics announced the completion of the first FTTH pilot network in Greece, in the city of Karditsa. Optronics has also been awarded the construction of the city’s fiber MAN, funded under the Call 93 of Information Society Programm. The FTTH network in the city comes to underpin the city’s efforts for [...]
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Essen is the next German city to plan the installation of an FTTH network. According to tcmnet the municipal holding Essen EW and Conlinet are preparing to deploy an FTTH network in the city. Annual capital expenditures are estimated to reach 10M euros until all (!) 45.000 houses in the city are connected. The go/no-go [...]
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I’ve read Rob Atksinson’s and George Ou’s article published in the latest FTTH Prism newsletter entitled “Why Municipal Fiber Hasn’t Succeeded“. The authors argue that municipal broadband has not been successful because municipal broadband initiatives have not proven to be financially viable. The argumentation is persuasive at first reading; however, I’d like to take a [...]
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I was happy to watch live the most part of the Freedom to Connect 2009 conference via a broadcast feed, setup especially for the event. It proved really worthy and helped gain additional insight on how the issues of open access, municipal broadband and Government involvement in broadband development, are addressed on the other side [...]
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Just before the end of 2008 I arranged an interview with Marc Duchesne, an intriguing blogger and fiber enthousiast that has been involved in the municipal fiber network of the region of Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the south of France. I met with Marc on twitter and we have been chatting occasionally on fiber issues ever [...]
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Earlier this year the cabinet (the minister and the secretary general) of the Ministry of Communications has been replaced, due to a major Government cabinet shuffle. At that time, the fears that this change will affect the pace of the ambitious FTTH project for the 52 largest cities of Greece does not seem to materialize [...]
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Amsterdam which was officially given a thumbs-up by European Commission to build an open fiber to the home physical infrastructure only in late 2007 , an approval process that lasted almost 12 months , has now announced a new agreement between initial shareholders and Reggefiber/KPN (Earlier in 2008, KPN acquired control of Reggefiber which is [...]
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In an effort to bring you the most up-to-date information on broadband developments around the world, I’ve decided to enrich the content of this blog with insight and opinions from key broadband experts. The first topic I plan to cover in a small series of interviews is municipal broadband. And I couldn’t think of a [...]
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In Broadband Cities 2008, one of the things that didn’t attract significant publicity and international attention like e.g. the signature of the iNEC declaration on Open Access by the Hellenic Central Union of Municipalities and Communitites was the creation of the first digital society in Greece. In the evening of the first day, 11 municipalities [...]
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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.