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Earlier this week, during the 2nd FTTx Telecom Strategies Conference, Dr. Leonidas Kanellos, president of the ministry’s committtee for the Greek FTTH project, presented the draft guidelines of the legislation which is prepared and ready to be put on open consultation in the coming days. I have not much to comment about although I see [...]
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Estonia becomes the next East European country to outline a National Broadband project for the development of high-speed broadband infrastructure through-out the country. According to Associated Press , the Estonian government and telecommunications providers in the country announced a $500 million plan to boost broadband penetration and overall economy. The Estonian economy is expected to [...]
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In cold blood, the Australian Government threw away the proposals filed for its NBN RfP and went for plan B. While everyone was expecting the announcement of the winning consortium, any day soon, Australian Government concluded that none of the proposals fitted Government’s long-term plans and decided to “toss” a few extra dozens of billions [...]
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Starhub was selected to run the communications network of Singapore (i.e. design, build and operation of the active infrastructure to provide wholesale broadband connectivity to Retail Service Providers). Read iDA ’s press release and Yong Ying-I – chairman of iDA – address on the matter. Tim posts an insightful brief on the bid. While I [...]
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A few days ago I came across the work of Alexandre de Streel on EU telecommunications regulation, published in the latest issue of the Journal of Telecommunications Policy. In light of the contemporary review of EU regulatory framework, the author attempts a review of the EU policy in electronic communications and provides some powerful insight. [...]
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Joeri inform us on his blog in FTTH Council Europe web site about the Council’s comments on the recent public consultation on Next Generation Access networks issued by the Commission in October. FTTH Council has made public the document which can be downloaded here . I would like to point out a couple of things [...]
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ARCEP has recently released the outcome of the public consultation on FTTH last mile deployment guidelines. In a statement Friday, Arcep said it recommends the first operator “to equip a building offers to install additional fiber” in the last part of the network “on behalf of other operators”. Read below the press release. You can [...]
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When Singapore announced its national broadband strategy the world followed impatiently. Singapore Government required a structural separated passive infrastructure operator/developer (NetCo) and an operational separated operating company (OpCo) for its national broadband network infrastructure. Last week, Singapore hit another home-rum by awarding the passive infrastructure (RFP issued late 2007) to OpenNet Consortium which made a [...]
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In an interview published today at TelecomTV, Australian Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy discusses Australia’s national strategy for broadband. The bidding process for the Australian NGN is completing at the end of this year. Watch the interview at the end of the post. Here’s the interview’s highlights:
The project aims [...]
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While on the other side of the Atlantic voices are calling for governmental support to uplift broadband figures, Finland is yet another European country to publicly consider the government funding of NGNs. The cost of the investment would be EUR 200 million, of which the state would pay up to a third, municipalities, regions 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.