From the category archives:
I was doing a little houskeeping on the blog the other day and decided to check up on the stats. It’s been quite a while since the last time I did that and found many interesting facts.
Here’s something nice: the top 10 articles in Broadband Prime, ordered by popularity. Only one is in “My Favorites” [...]
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It is that time of the year already. I am flying tomorrow morning to Milan for the FTTH Council’s 2011 Conference.
There’s plenty of interesting thing going on in the program but make sure that you don’t miss Benoit Felten’s Breakout Session: “Is FTTH Needed for Content & Applications” in the first morning slot of the second day.
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This is an amusing clip, made by Jean-Christophe Laurence in Canada. Children are asked to identify technology gadgets of the past (like, gameboy, 5.25 inches diskettes, an LP players etc). Their responses are all the money, first because the answers are funny and second because they are children. I wonder what will the childern, 30 [...]
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All of my twitter followers received earlier today a DM from me giving out iPADs for free. Of course, the people who actually know me know that I wouldn’t give out iPADs, an FTTH connection maybe, but not iPADs.This was a spam message from those infamous sites luring you into giving your mobile phone and [...]
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I was killing time yesterday, browsing youtube’s selection of ads. Here’s one, very funny, by HoL (a major Greek ISP) on the benefits and merits of slow internet connection (yes, that’s right). It has English subs embedded.
yours truly (still without vacations), KT
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I was in the office on Sunday but the air condition leaked (big time; seriously). Since there wasn’t anyone to call and I couldn’t survive with the temperature outside climbing to the early 40s, I had to find a solution quickly.
Here’s the problem I had at hand:
And here’s how I got it fixed. All I [...]
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I can’t write too much recently, work has been over my head, however, I still keep track of FTTH developments and I like spotting new blogs on FTTH. Once they were few, now they are so many; it seems.
So, if you speak French, feel free to check out on Fibre Optique France. They post often [...]
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A few days ago I stumbled upon another interesting blog about regulation and policy in EU and Greece.
Panos Korkovelos runs the Electronic Communications Regulation Update that tracks the most significant legal developments in the field of electronic communications. The aim is to cover to a larger extent the European and especially the Greek [...]
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It seems that Pauline is planning to put FTTH Council on the social web for real.
FTTH Council has recently created a Facebook page and a twitter account, to which I have already subscribed. I am sure this will enhance the exposure of the Council’s work to much more people, especially the facebook page.
I look forward [...]
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I didn’t see too many telecoms joke for April’s fool this year. I started a list with the jokes I came across, for the record. If you happen to have read another one please share and/or comment and I will put it in.
Most FTTH Infrastructure in the U.S. is Flawed, Needs Replacement: 4 tweets
Bill 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.
