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The European Commission issued on Monday 20/9/2010 the new (and final) Recommendation on regulated access to Next Generation Access Networks [C(2010)6223]. Also, the Commission circulated the related communication C(2010)472 with title “European Broadband: investing in digitally driven growth”. The two documents elaborate and explain the vision and the implementation strategy envisaged by the European Commission [...]
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A hilarious ad by HKBN about the Next-Generation Internet. It features Graham Bell speaking Cantonese!
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For the last years, due to probably professional perversion, I have questioned most of (if not all) the assumptions of broadband/NGA/FTTH techno-economic studies. One thing that never felt entirely right is how we factor population density in cost functions. We use inhabitants per sq. mile/km (area metric) to estimate costs while we express the results [...]
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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 [...]
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It seems that the French plans for the infamous law to enforce telcos to disconnect users from the Internet when they are caught distributing/downloading copyrighted material after having been warned twice about, did some good for the telecom reform in the continent after all. EU assembly has initially compromised for a softer understanding of user [...]
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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.
