From the monthly archives:
Earlier this month European Commission – Information Society & Media has published a summary guide of all European research projects that contribute to the future Internet development in Europe. This compendium is prologued by Mrs. Viviane Reding, member of the European Commission responsible for Information Society and Media which concludes:
…the “Future Internet” is at the [...]
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Excerpts from the public consultation text follows:
At the 2007 Spring European Council, the Heads of State and Government highlighted the development of a sustainable integrated European climate and energy policy as a top priority and adopted an energy and climate package to guide the EU towards a competitive and secure energy economy while promoting energy [...]
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Earlier this week, the preliminary results of Ministry of Communications & Transport taskforce for the strategy for Electronic Communications industry in Greece were released. All stakeholders are invited to comment and opinion on the preliminary results. The consultation ends on Friday the 6th of June.
The consultation’s documents can be found from the links below:
Preliminary results [...]
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The interview brings some insight to Orascom Group’s global strategy.
Orascom is already present in the telecom market of Italy and Greece and according to the CEO’s own words the forthcoming consolidation of smaller players is an inevitability that will provide business opportunities for the Group (to op as a consolidator in this anticipated market activity).
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On May 13th EarthLink announced that is shutting down Philadelphia WiFi Network. Philadelphia WiFi Network has been often referenced as a unique business case of cheap municipal wireless broadband network; and it was started with a lot of fanfare. Yet, the facts proved otherwise.
Most of the analysts argue that it was EarthLink’s business model that [...]
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A directive on Electronic Communication Services Quality Indicators was issued on 13th of May by EETT. Operators will be required to monitor a series of quality indicators and publish them on their web sites respectively. To assist end-customers in service quality comparison among various providers the results from all providers will be publish on [...]
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Here’s a recent communication by the European Commissions acknowledging the importance of ICT towards sustainable economic and societal growth in terms of energy consumption and carbon emissions. The communication focuses on ICT itself (replacement of old technology equipment with newer and more efficient) and on improving energy efficiency across the economy through the use of [...]
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Since yesterday, the top story in all Greek news portals’ is the finalization of the DT-OTE deal.
Minister’s board concurred with the deal presented by the ministers of finance and telecommunications in yesterday’s meeting. The details are yet to be announced in the following days, however some info have already hit the headlines:
Greek Government and DT [...]
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Planned fiber network deployment in Wyoming enabled a local company to win a contract for teaching conversational English to south Koreas. FTTx network not only supported the company in wining the contract, it also helped in hiring teachers that will be able to work from home. The initiative was critically supported by Wyoming Department of [...]
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Yesterday I read Robert Atkinson’s “Framing a National Broadband Policy“, a very good introduction to the challenges, benefits and implementation tradeoffs of a National Broadband Policy.
In my view, the best parts of the paper are:
Section IV: where the author explains briefly the notion of network externalities and discuss how Broadband Access exhibits similar qualities and
Section [...]
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