From the monthly archives:
For some time, I have been thinking of switching blog service provider. Wordpress is an excellent aesthetics blog service with quality tools for post formatting. However it lacks a set of serious functionality (at least in my views) such as 1. Incorporating video from third-party content sites, 2. Incorporating polls and other survey functionality 3. [...]
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It looks like EU telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding’s plans for a European regulator will be shot down by the European Council of Ministers today.
Read more in the article of Telecom TV.
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Day 2 – Session 3: Innovation in Services
Andreas Anastasopoulos, President of Greek Licensed Telecommunication Providers Association (SATPE) discussed the opportunities and challenges of Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs). He argued that MVNOs is the next best thing for service innovation in the telecommunications industry. The core argument behind that is that services and products differentiation [...]
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Day 2 – Session 2: Innovation in Networks: Next Generation Access Networks
Nicolas Curien, member of the Board of ARCEP gave interesting insight to ARCEP’s future regulation priorities regarding NGANs. If I got this straight, ARCEP is currently analyzing the French market to evaluate the best type of regulation for allowing access to the FT’s ducts [...]
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Day 2 – Innovative Applications of Broadband Internet
Session 1: Innovative Regulatory Measures for Competition and Broadband Market
The session discussed Functional & Structural Separation from many perspectives. The speakers common conclusion was that Functional/Structural separation may be attractive but it is not an a-priori straight-forward solution to the problem of NGA investment encouragement and competition promotion.
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Day 1 – Session 2: Regulatory Challenges for Broadband Innovation
Chris Fonteijn, president of OPTA and member of the board of the ERG presented the Dutch situation as an effective (impressive) broadband duopoly:
94% households are served by cable
99% households are served by KPN
50%-70% of households are served by alternative operators
The Dutch regulation process has been [...]
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This weekend I followed the 3rd Annual Conference for Broadband Internet organized by EETT. This year, the conference’s theme was on “Innovation in Broadband Networks & Services”. Although I planned to participate in the conference last minute emergencies have prevented me from going.
Luckily, this has not proven much of a problem. EETT has arranged [...]
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On the 29th of May the 1st open meeting of Ebusiness forum Id3 Workgroup on FTTx was held at the President Hotel, Athens. 35-40 representatives of public & private sector came to the meeting which was, I think, a great success in participation terms. Group members are approximately 50, therefore, a participation figure close to [...]
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