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Yesterday, European Court of Justice (EJC) added the latest chapter in the surreal dispute [1] between DT and german regulator on the one side and the European Commission on the other about the effective grant of regulation holidays to the german incumbent.
It all started back in the 2006 when the german watchdog took the bold, [...]
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Last week the regulators of the world united (sic) in a 3 days compound event [the 1-day Global Industry Leaders’ Forum (GILF) and the 2-day annual Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR)] and discussed contemporary topics of telecommunications regulation such as facilitating ICT investments, Universal Service Plans and Next-Generation Networks.
Fellow fiber-ring member Rudolf van der Berg [...]
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I was thinking of a way to celebrate One Web Day. A couple suggestions for a collaborative activity failed thunderously (lack of time and bad schedule), so I decided to go after a friend’s suggestion to put together a short note arguing why a government (in our case the Greek government) should invest/fund in FTTH [...]
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The INFOSTRAG group organizes their 5th consecutive annual seminar in Syros. This year the seminar is entitled “Leveraging on ICT and Renewable Energy Sources for the Development of Islands and Remote Areas” and I am invited to discuss the policy implications of municipal involvement in NGA.
The seminar is planned for next weekend 9-12/7/2009. Should you [...]
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A few days ago I came across the work of Alexandre de Streel on EU telecommunications regulation, published in the latest issue of the Journal of Telecommunications Policy. In light of the contemporary review of EU regulatory framework, the author attempts a review of the EU policy in electronic communications and provides some powerful insight. [...]
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Joeri inform us on his blog in FTTH Council Europe web site about the Council’s comments on the recent public consultation on Next Generation Access networks issued by the Commission in October. FTTH Council has made public the document which can be downloaded here . I would like to point out a couple of things [...]
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ARCEP has recently released the outcome of the public consultation on FTTH last mile deployment guidelines. In a statement Friday, Arcep said it recommends the first operator “to equip a building offers to install additional fiber” in the last part of the network “on behalf of other operators”. Read below the press release. You can [...]
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FTTx is a relatively new development in the telecom industry, with relatively small technology & architecture dependences and no historic record. Therefore, many issues relating to FTTx deployments, namely implementation, business models, economic case, technology etc are still open and are going through heavy international dispute. The previous generation of broadband access (ADSL & cable) [...]
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While on the other side of the Atlantic voices are calling for governmental support to uplift broadband figures, Finland is yet another European country to publicly consider the government funding of NGNs. The cost of the investment would be EUR 200 million, of which the state would pay up to a third, municipalities, regions and [...]
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European Commission has issued a public consultation for a set of proposals that are aimed to spur competition and encourage the development of FTTH. After the end of the consultation period (mid-Novemeber) the Commission will adapt the comments of the responders to a formal recommendation in 2009. [Press Release available]
Viviane Reding, the Commissioner for Information [...]
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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.