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Almost a year ago (29th of March 2010) NBN issued a Request for Capability Statement for the construction of its network. In June the 23rd after assessing the applications filled 21 companies were invited to bid for the tender. Nevertheless, a few days ago, NBN Co announced that it withdraws the tender, the head of [...]
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The Government of Qatar announced that it plans to establish a National Broadband Plan for the country that will help advance the fiber penetration across. The Q.NBN, currently the name of the plan, will assume planning and deployment of passive infrastructure. The initiative was formulated with the constribution of the major service providers active in [...]
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Have you ever noticed how NBN sounds like Amen? Here’s a noble prayer to Mike Quigley, CEO of NBN Co. Some people have humor:
“Our Chief Quigley,
respected be thy name,
Your fibre kingdom come,
may your plans become reality,
on Aussie soil as it is in Korea,
Give us this day our daily bandwidth,
and forgive us our symmetric dreams,
as we [...]
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Telstra’s deal with the NBN Co to lease/wholesale a part of the incumbent’s infrastructure to the government-led project was discussed today at Telstra’s annual general meeting. The deal is expected to bring wider and cost efficient underground deployments of NBN while it is estimated to send 11bn of cash to Telstra’s deposits. The financial magnitude [...]
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Broadband has been increasingly influential to political life and political decision-making across the globe. This is no secret. A number of municipalities and city councils in USA campaigned, some of them far from conservatively, to attract Google’s attention for an FTTH pilot. City officials in Europe and US include broadband related issues in their political [...]
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In an interesting discussion about the cost of the NBN (National Broadband Network) during the Cebit Australia 2010 some part of the focus kept on the opportunity cost of not building the network, especially in terms of competitive disadvantage that Australia would suffer in comparison to other national economies.
In a similar and more provocative tone [...]
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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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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.