Today is my Nameday – a day when your name is “celebrated”. It is a religious in nature custom (although there is nothing religious about it these days) which from what I am aware of is not very common in... (Continue reading)
With all this attention on public broadband projects and Greece’e national FTTH project I haven’t blogged much about my other favorite topic: sustainable economic growth. Without looking for another excuse, here’s an excellent talk by Ray Anderson available at www.ted.com... (Continue reading)
While at the 2nd FTTx Telecoms Strategies Conference, Prof. Kalogirou (Consultant of the Central Union of Municipalities and Commutes) presented a slide about the formation of regional groups of cities that aim to use the municipal MANs to bring FTTH... (Continue reading)
I’m suffering a terrible cold that does not allow me to concentrate on the simplest of tasks. For the rest of you in better shape here’s a song performed by the Broad Band If you are born in... (Continue reading)
This is small tidbit sent to me by a mega reader of the blog; truly hilarious! ... (Continue reading)
More and more I see people realizing that blogging is in fact an essential tool for marketing, for communicating results, ideas and concepts and for influencing decision making in the industry and beyond. European Commissioners are starting their own personal... (Continue reading)
Yesterday, Broadband Prime statistics showed 105 subsribers. After almost 13 months Broadband Prime hits 3-digits subs. The feelings are strong, rewarding and encouraging. I think it is probably a good time to draw some conclusions from the blog’s traffic. Right... (Continue reading)
I have created a new group in Linked-In, the ” Public-Broadband Debating Group “, to let it serve as a debating medium about the role of Government in broadband development. The purpose of the group is to discuss the public... (Continue reading)
I read Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers these days and the case of Susan Boyle fits perfectly to a simple rule the author lays in one of the book’s chapters. You need to have 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert... (Continue reading)
For the past week, I’ve been receiving contradictive stats from the blog’s feed. By digging a bit deeper to it I found that there is indeed a problem with feedburner lately that was acknowledged by the company last week. However,... (Continue reading)