From the category archives:
In the 28th of July the GIG.U initiative was launched in the US. From the information released so far, GIG.U assumes the role of the intermediary between the local communities around the participating universities and the telecommunications operators. In a nutshell, GIG.U will aggregate demand and then call operators to bid and compete to serve [...]
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It has been a while since I posted on the blog. I am happy to break the radio silence to let you know about the newest report I wrote for Diffraction Analysis. It is called “The virtues and limitations of FTTP franchise models” and analyzes the fundamentals of contemporary franchising in the telecommunications business. Franchising [...]
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I spent a few days during Easter in the country side. I stayed in a small town where a big battle was fought 2.500 years ago, Marathon.
The town is less than an hour drive, north east from the capital and lies just outside the new real estate Greenfield development of the metropolitan area of Athens. [...]
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Almost a year ago (29th of March 2010) NBN issued a Request for Capability Statement for the construction of its network. In June the 23rd after assessing the applications filled 21 companies were invited to bid for the tender. Nevertheless, a few days ago, NBN Co announced that it withdraws the tender, the head of [...]
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The Government of Qatar announced that it plans to establish a National Broadband Plan for the country that will help advance the fiber penetration across. The Q.NBN, currently the name of the plan, will assume planning and deployment of passive infrastructure. The initiative was formulated with the constribution of the major service providers active in [...]
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Have you ever noticed how NBN sounds like Amen? Here’s a noble prayer to Mike Quigley, CEO of NBN Co. Some people have humor:
“Our Chief Quigley,
respected be thy name,
Your fibre kingdom come,
may your plans become reality,
on Aussie soil as it is in Korea,
Give us this day our daily bandwidth,
and forgive us our symmetric dreams,
as we [...]
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Telmex, the Mexican incumbent, is deploying FTTH in Yukatan Country Club, a high-income residential area in Mexico. The investment is estimated at 2.3M euros to offer speeds up to 1Gbps in all residences.
Telmex seems to have plans to deploy GPON FTTH in other parts of the country, namely cities. These pictures show, according to the [...]
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The communications company of Falls City, a small rural city in Nebraska/USA has completed a full deployment of FTTH across the city and is now nearly finisshing hooking-up all homes and businesses in the area (note: connecting, not activating). The company is working closely with local authorities to increase awareness about the benefits of high [...]
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Here’s a couple new announcements in Europe on FTTH deployments:
The first comes from Spain where Movistar launched commercially its FTTH offerings covering 300k households with the aim to span over 1 million homes by the end of the year.
The second comes from Ukraine where Kyivstar expanded its FTTH network to 38 cities in total adding [...]
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According to today’s People’s Daily Online, China Telecom just launched a 3-year strategy within the general plan “Broadband China Optical Network City” to interconnect with fiber optical links all the cities in mainland China. Obviously, the plan comes in support to the company’s FTTH/B plans announced in 2010 based on GPON gear from Ericsson and [...]
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Costas Troulos 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 everything related to telecom regulation/policy, national strategies and NGN business models.