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 country to 12.5% of the total population, an outstanding figure compared to the sad 3.33% 2 years ago.
Source: Kathimerini Daily Newspaper
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 experimenting with fiber access more recently). It is a show case in August’s issue of Ericsson’s “5 to Remember” periodical. Read more about it at the web site of City of Trikala and follow the link at the end of the text to the english page.
From Monday October 20 untill Wednesday October 22, the City of Trikala, Greece will be hosting a community of practitioners from worldwide broadband projects. Representatives from United States, South Africa, Malaysia and various European cities will gather to present and discuss state of art applications, best and next practices as well as their plans for sustainable Broadband Cities of the future.
Greece will be the first country in which mayors of ALL local communities will sign the INEC Declaration on Open Networks. This document originated at the Broadband Cities 2006 conference in Stockholm and has since then been signed by a large number of communities from all over the world. Never since it’s inception has this document however been signed by all local dignitaries of one country. This unique event marks the spectacular opening of Broadband Cities 2008 in an even spectacular environment of the classic beauty of the city of Athens.
If you want to learn more about the forum you can visit Broadband Cities 2008 web site. Many of the people you know will be there!
After a relaxing summer break of close to 3 weeks I am back online. To get myself started, I’ll post a few links that caught my eye and attention while I was cleaning up my posts and emails backlog:
