From the monthly archives:
Part of my work involves keeping a detailed directory of all active FTTH projects worldwide. Germany was one the European countries I had little information registered in my detailed addendum. All that until recently, when I finished reading the “Fiber in Germany” study prepared by Seim & Partner.
The authors, Sabine Finke and Kai Seim, provide [...]
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Yankee Group recently released a study prepared by my good friend Benoit Felten called “Open Access Makes Economic Sense“. The study puts the international debate surrounding the “Open Access” NGN business models on new grounds. Benoit challenges the traditional notion, embraced by most telcos, that foreclosing competitive access to their networks is a good [...]
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I am happy to announce that Broadband Prime has moved to a dotcom domain. After being hosted for more than a year on blogspot.com and wordpress.com I finally settled to http://www.broadbandprime.com/
I planned to move the blog since the beginning of the year. Until recently this plan was simply my pet project; when I had time [...]
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Broadband Prime’s Top Picks is a weekly digest that brings you the top articles that I’ve read the past week. The focus of the digest is not on news, unless ground-breaking rather on opinions, analysis and comments by individuals or organizations relevant to the blog’s favorite topics. Hopefully, this is going to be a list [...]
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When faced with NGA policies, one of the biggest sources of “misunderstanding” and inefficient policy making relates to the inappropriate definition of broadband. What is, and what is not considered as broadband is a challenging issue for policy makers drafting NGA national strategies. This is because the level of speed, acknowledged by authorities as broadband, [...]
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In late 2008, the e-inclusion awards were established for the first time by the European Commision to recognise excellence and good practice in using ICT and digital technology to tackle social and digital exclusion across Europe.
The Greeks got home with the Inclusive Public Services Award for a pilot e-health project run by Sotiria Hospital. The [...]
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European elections concluded this weekend and one important observation comes out, by simply browsing through the final results. All political parties in the European Parliament looses power over the Greens and “others”. This underlines the fact that our environmental future becomes increasingly important for the public.
You may recall that a similar political trend formed back [...]
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Broadband Prime’s Top Picks is a weekly digest that brings you the top articles that I’ve read the past week. The focus of the digest is not on news, unless ground-breaking rather on opinions, analysis and comments by individuals or organizations relevant to the blog’s favorite topics. Hopefully, this is going to be a list [...]
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I often argue that fiber connections, or simply the availability of the adequate infrastructure to enable fiber connection increases the value of a property, home or complex. It’s widely acknowledged that, say, kitchen renovation or the addition of wooden floor in a house brings much more value than it costs. By the same token, fiber [...]
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Here’s a nice clip by EETT (the Greek NRA) showing a sneak preview of a converged connected world. It’s in Greek but it’s not hard for non-Greek speaking visitors to watch it too.
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