Last Weekend’s Homework…
This weekend a flue has grounded me in-house, in bed or, at best, in my home office. I took advantage (go figure!) of the situation and read more than usual! While I am still recovering, here’s some of the best web readings of my last weekend:
- The Next Broadband Business Models: As broadband growth rates steadily decrease the new business models for broadband will not be based on new subscriber’s growth rather on existing subscriber’s ARPU (average revenue per user). Interesting piece with good ideas in Telephony Online. See also 10 Ideas for Broadband Billing from the same issue of Telephony Online.
- Infringement Procedures: EU documentation about the legal proceedings against any Member State that fails to comply with EU telecoms law and regulations. I had to find out a little more about it after the recent related developments against various EU countries such as Sweden, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Cyprus, Spain, Bulgaria and Romania.
- FTTH with European Flair: A review of the FTTH status in Europe. One of the featuring interviewees is the Fiber Ringer Benoit. Contemporary featured articles in US press give me the impression that US is starting to rethink the strong potentials of governmental involvment in NGAN development.
- Lighting Up Next-Gen Nets: For service providers, powering next-generation networks, particularly the outside plant, is becoming a real headache. From network design challenges to problems with improperly grounded electronics at the customer premises to pending federal and state regulatory requirements for backup power, telcos are struggling to resolve power issues quickly so that they can focus more on finding new ways to reduce energy consumption and go green.
- Municipalities and Open Access Critical to FTTH Growth in France: Something for all municipal broadband enthousiasts (and not only them) to have a closer look at.
- A new kind of muni FTTH network: An insightful discussion of the City of Powell’s business model for installing and operating a GPON (hey! better than nothing) FTTH network.
