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Meanwhile In Greece…
A lot has been going on during my relative inactiveness from the blog. Here’s a short compilation of what I find important and worth mentioning for future reference: 1. The country’s plan for a nationwide FTTH project continues to develop in... (Continue reading)
Thuesday’s Reading List
Written on 31 Mar, 2009 at 9:13 in Blog | viewed 1 times | 0 Comments
I’ve wiped out a big part of my long to-do list the last few weeks (I plan to talk about some of the stuff I did this month in future posts). While I get back on blogging track here’s some... (Continue reading)
‘ never left the scene!
Written on 12 Dec, 2008 at 6:54 in Blog | viewed 2 times | 0 Comments
I haven’t been very active on Broadband Prime lately. This is mostly due to job issues, some having to do with the unprecedent recent events in Greece, that you probably are aware of (ie, my office is in the university... (Continue reading)
Reports Snaps
Written on 10 Nov, 2008 at 4:28 in Blog | viewed 1 times | 0 Comments
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... (Continue reading)
Last Week’s Picks
After announcing that is dumping its GPON business, NSN has fired against GPON at the Broadband World Forum Europe 2008 . According to company’s officials 1) VDSL technology has the qualities to directly compete with GPON and 2) by the... (Continue reading)
Last Weekend’s Homework…
This weekend a flue has grounded me in-house, in bed or, at best, in my home office. I took advantage (go figure!) of the situation and read more than usual! While I am still recovering, here’s some of the best... (Continue reading)
Days of Fiber
Written on 15 Sep, 2008 at 5:04 in Blog | viewed 4 times | 0 Comments
Following the announcement of the Greek government to sponsor and support a very ambitious deployment of a Fiber Access Network in the 52 biggest cities of the country Italian government came forward with a similar initiative: The intention to finance... (Continue reading)
Woman Arrested For Threatening To Hold Broadband Repair Guy Hostage
Written on 12 Sep, 2008 at 4:05 in Blog | viewed 1 times | 0 Comments
That’s a really funny story coming from Canada. A frustrated customer requested the broadband technician to be present in her house while the repair was being carried on on another site, or else she would hold him hostage! The technician took... (Continue reading)
More than 1.4M broadband connections in Greece
According to OTE’s data for the third quarter of 2008 published on Friday, the sum of active ADSL connections reached 1.415M. 890K of these are bitstream connections and 525K are unbundled local loops. These data raise broadband penetration in the... (Continue reading)
e-Trikala: A Greek show case for digital cities
Trikala is hosting his year’s Broadband Cities 2008. The municipality of Trikala is a small city in size yet very active in broadband! The city is proven very successful in broadband (it has built wireless mesh at first, and is... (Continue reading)
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