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According to EC’s recommendation, member states have to encourage infrastructure-based competition as the best and fastest way for broadband development [1]. At first, the arguments behind infrastructure-based competition policies seem solid. Competition does good to the market: provides efficiency incentives to operators, reduces prices, increase penetration, etc. This seems to cheer everyone: 1) Customers are [...]
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I found this video clip (approx. 5 min) on Internet Evolution. It’s an excellent comentatory on India’s efforts for internet/broadband. And it also explains how often, the simplest ideas can do good, when we talk about rural broadband connectivity.
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I have assisted several investors build broadband business plans/models the last few years. And I have always been requested to prove the sustainability of the project as a way to help my occasional employer achieve its objectives (ie get funding, decide and schedule the investment etc.)
However, I can’t honestly align myself with the notion that [...]
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I got this lead from a reader on the blog’s board and I wanted to post on the matter separately. ATS, a property developer in India built the first FTTH enabled residential complex in the country, according to the firm’s website and other sources. Here’s a video about it. It is quite apealling and reminds [...]
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I was reading this article in Internet Evolution and learn about iBEC. iBEC leverages on existing power distribution grids covering 75% of the total US land and is offering broadband internet, remote surveillance and security services over power lines in US rural areas. Another nice thing to know is that IBM announced a $9.6 millions [...]
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TTK is a Russian intra–continental capacity supplier focused on providing low latency and high quality wholesale transit and access services to international operators at the shortest Europe – Asia route. The company has a fairly large footprint with 17 international gateways in Europe, former soviet countries and southeast Asia. The big news is that following [...]
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FTTx is a relatively new development in the telecom industry, with relatively small technology & architecture dependences and no historic record. Therefore, many issues relating to FTTx deployments, namely implementation, business models, economic case, technology etc are still open and are going through heavy international dispute. The previous generation of broadband access (ADSL & cable) [...]
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A mega valued reader send me these pictures from one of EU eastern capitals. These pictures illustrate aerial deployments of FTTH/B access networks. You can also see the feeder cables climbing on the rooftop of few buildings.
Economic case certainly benefits from the FTTH/B costs cuts of aerial installation, however, it has a negative impact on [...]
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Facilities based competition versus open access public networks is a debate that seems to always surface in almost every fiber agenda. I will try to put in order some thoughts in a personal attempt to clear up things a bit. The choice of one option over the other is not an easy call and it [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I received a call from a civil constructor asking assistance and opinion. He was installing new water pipes along a city district and to his surprise he came across a street where installation was impossible. The reason was that throughout the entire width of the street various fiber networks have [...]
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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.