From the category archives:
Day 2 – Session 2: Innovation in Networks: Next Generation Access Networks
Nicolas Curien, member of the Board of ARCEP gave interesting insight to ARCEP’s future regulation priorities regarding NGANs. If I got this straight, ARCEP is currently analyzing the French market to evaluate the best type of regulation for allowing access to the FT’s ducts [...]
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Day 2 – Innovative Applications of Broadband Internet
Session 1: Innovative Regulatory Measures for Competition and Broadband Market
The session discussed Functional & Structural Separation from many perspectives. The speakers common conclusion was that Functional/Structural separation may be attractive but it is not an a-priori straight-forward solution to the problem of NGA investment encouragement and competition promotion.
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Day 1 – Session 2: Regulatory Challenges for Broadband Innovation
Chris Fonteijn, president of OPTA and member of the board of the ERG presented the Dutch situation as an effective (impressive) broadband duopoly:
94% households are served by cable
99% households are served by KPN
50%-70% of households are served by alternative operators
The Dutch regulation process has been [...]
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This weekend I followed the 3rd Annual Conference for Broadband Internet organized by EETT. This year, the conference’s theme was on “Innovation in Broadband Networks & Services”. Although I planned to participate in the conference last minute emergencies have prevented me from going.
Luckily, this has not proven much of a problem. EETT has arranged [...]
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To conclude my report on AIT Workshop on “FTTx architectures, technologies, business and economic aspects” I have compiled a list of short & longer remarks I found intriguing from either speakers or attendants, and some personal conclusions:
“GPON is chosen by most incumbents worldwide because it makes the unbundling process [...]
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One thing I like in life is Mathematics. And the best thing in Mathematics is numbers! In this Workshop much too many figures were provided from either academic modeling or corporate planning. Below are the major findings the way I jotted them down. Comments follow at the end of the post.
1. Dr. Ioannis Tomkos & [...]
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On Friday the 11th April I attended the International Workshop: “FTTx architectures, technologies, business and economic aspects” organized by Athens Information Technology (AIT). It was an overall satisfying, well organized event that aimed at presenting 1) FTTx strategies, 2) operational and technical issues and 3) business and economic challenges faced or anticipated in broadband development [...]
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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.