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Here’s a few links that I spent time on during the last week. They worth the attention:
eGov versus We.Gov: who wins? EU decide: Features an interesting report on European Commission’s ePractice workshop on Web 2.0 entitled “Public Service 2.0″ that reflects how web2.0 services and concepts can enrich and enhance public administration process and efficiency.
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Homing pigeon Winston has made history by beating a Telkom ADSL line in delivering 4GB of data from Howick to Hillcrest, outside Durban in far less time than it takes to download the data using the state-run Telkom’s data network.
It took Winston 2 hours 6 minutes and 57 seconds, whereas the ADSL download was still [...]
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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 fast pace [ in Greek ]. According to sources coming from the ministry of Transportation [...]
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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 of the nicest things I’ve read this week.
InfoDEV & ITU published ” Module 4: Universal [...]
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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 campus which is closed for more than a week), some other stemming from the overall [...]
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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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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 time fiber becomes a mass market product (within a 5 years time frame) WDM-PON will [...]
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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 web readings of my last weekend:
The Next Broadband Business Models: As broadband growth rates steadily [...]
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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 10% of a 10bn investment required to expand a NGAN to the entire Italian peninsula! [...]
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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 the “threat” literally and filed charges! I’ve read it at TechDirt.
Now, be honest; don’t tell [...]
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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.