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Earlier this month FCC made available a draft “Next Generation Connectivity” (links to pdf) by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society on Next Generation Access Networks and the policies endorsed by various nations in respect to broadband connectivity.
What clearly stands out in the study is the acknowledgement of the significance of efficient open access [...]
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About a week ago ICF announced next year’s (2010) smart21 cities. 7 of these cities will be awarded the Intelligent Community award in January. According to ICF, “Intelligent Communities are those which have – whether through crisis or foresight – come to understand the enormous challenges of the Broadband Economy, and have taken conscious steps [...]
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The time is here. I am flying to St. Petersburg on Sunday morning, so early that I think it may be late Saturday night! I am speaking at ICUMT 2009 (12-14 Oct), an international conference, sponsored by IEEE for researchers, engineers, network planners and service providers in telecommunications targeted on newly emerging systems, standards, services, and applications.
I [...]
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I was thinking of a way to celebrate One Web Day. A couple suggestions for a collaborative activity failed thunderously (lack of time and bad schedule), so I decided to go after a friend’s suggestion to put together a short note arguing why a government (in our case the Greek government) should invest/fund in FTTH [...]
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A few days ago the Observatory for Information Society in Greece released its mid-2009 report on broadband. For those not familiar with this publication, it is a biannual report on broadband developments in the country.
According to the report, Greece had, the 1st of July, 15,63 % broadband penetration (connections/100 inhabitants), which in absolute figures means [...]
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Homing pigeon Winston has made history by beating a Telkom ADSL line in delivering 4GB of data from Howick to Hillcrest, outside Durban in far less time than it takes to download the data using the state-run Telkom’s data network.
It took Winston 2 hours 6 minutes and 57 seconds, whereas the ADSL download was still [...]
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This Monday I came back to the office after my (rather) long holidays (the first true holidays I had in the last 4 years – I admit that I checked email only every 4-5 days, which feels as nice and “forbidden” as eating meat during the holly week!!).
As I am picking up pace, browsing through [...]
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Last weekend I saw the national FTTH project making it to the weekly mainstream newspaper covers. This often indicates that the big thing is at the gates!
Today, Mr. Stylianides, the minister of communications, gave a press conference about the project. The ministry released, in writing, a series of details about the project, the most [...]
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OTE’s CEO Panagis Vourloumis announced this Friday (10/7/2009) that the organization decided to set in motion its VDSL roll-out plans “as soon as possible”. According to organization’s top executive, national FTTH plans face bureaucratic delays and OTE “can’t wait any longer” [Check Reuters and Adslgr.com].
OTE has been testing VDSL for a long time. And while [...]
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James Boyle, co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain discusses the biases and virtues of openness and copyright/fight. It is a must see, especially if you are in the (printed or electronic) content creation and distribution business.
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