From the monthly archives:
The Greek telecommunications market was liberated by EETT , the National Regulatory Authority in 2001 . Strong optimism on market’s prospects and the stock market prosperity of the time led many (far more than the local market could sustain) entrepreneurs to try their chances in telecommunications. Two years later, in 2003 the rumor had it [...]
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Last weekend I visited the island of Naxos, during a long business/holidays weekend of October. Well, there is fibre in Naxos and here’s the proof for it. Check the picture at the end! All public buildings (hospitals, municipal services etc) are equipped with fibre access, and a metro network spreading across the centre of the [...]
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An interesting development is reported by Wiwo and reproduced here and there. Deutsche Telecom (DT) plans to work with fixed-line competition to upgrade its access networks with fiber cables. One of the companies that DT is negotiating with is the municipally-owned cableco NetCologne. DT’s strategy involves allowing operators access to rival’s infrastructure. This strategy represents [...]
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The last 3 days I spent at Trikala were truly amazing. The conference held in a gorgeous industrial setting at the perfectly preserved 19th century “Mill of Matsopoulos“. The hosts were amazing and the organization reached high standards (Special thanks to Odysseas and Vassiliki). On the downside, I think the schedule was a bit too [...]
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The Focus project has released the final report on “Fostering Cross-regional Transfer of Innovative e-Business policies“. The project aims at fostering synergies between public policies in support of e-Business for SMEs. The aim of this project is to create networks of e-Business know-how across national borders. The project is particularly targeted at representatives of trade [...]
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I am honored to be invited to deliver a presentation and moderate a session at this year’s Broadband Cities Conference. The event will be held at Trikala, Greece from the 21st to the 23rd of October and is co-organized by the International Network of E-Communities (INEC). In a special event in Athens on Monday (one [...]
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After announcing that is dumping its GPON business, NSN has fired against GPON at the Broadband World Forum Europe 2008 . According to company’s officials 1) VDSL technology has the qualities to directly compete with GPON and 2) by the time fiber becomes a mass market product (within a 5 years time frame) WDM-PON will [...]
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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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Dunedin municipality is planning a municipal fibre network to leverage on Aurora Energy’s distribution utility network. Aurora Energy Ltd is the council-owned electricity company which has applied for a $3 million share of the Government’s $340 million Broadband Investment Fund to help pay for the network.The city’s plan looks very similar to those of Sweden, [...]
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A couple of months ago I posted on OTE’s “discrete” plans to deploy IPTV services. On October 7th, the organization announced a 3 months IPTV pilot project for selected customers in selected areas. That brings the total number of IPTV operators active in Greece to 3. Forthnet is the last player expected to enter the [...]
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Costas 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 anything related to telecom regulation/policy, national strategies and NGN business models.