In late 2008, the e-inclusion awards were established for the first time by the European Commision to recognise excellence and good practice in using ICT and digital technology to tackle social and digital exclusion across Europe. The Greeks got home with... (Continue reading)
Here’s a nice clip by EETT (the Greek NRA) showing a sneak preview of a converged connected world. It’s in Greek but it’s not hard for non-Greek speaking visitors to watch it too. ... (Continue reading)
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... (Continue reading)
AIT and the Greek ICT Forum are organizing the second annual conference on FTTx Telecoms Strategies. UPDATE: The conference is scheduled for the 12th of May in Athens Classical Hotel, Karaiskaki square). The focus of the conference is placed on... (Continue reading)
A few weeks ago, Optronics announced the completion of the first FTTH pilot network in Greece, in the city of Karditsa. Optronics has also been awarded the construction of the city’s fiber MAN, funded under the Call 93 of Information... (Continue reading)
A lot has been going on during my relative inactiveness from the blog. Here’s a short compilation of what I find important and worth mentioning for future reference: 1. The country’s plan for a nationwide FTTH project continues to develop in... (Continue reading)
Earlier this year the cabinet (the minister and the secretary general) of the Ministry of Communications has been replaced, due to a major Government cabinet shuffle. At that time, the fears that this change will affect the pace of the... (Continue reading)
In Broadband Cities 2008, one of the things that didn’t attract significant publicity and international attention like e.g. the signature of the iNEC declaration on Open Access by the Hellenic Central Union of Municipalities and Communitites was the creation of... (Continue reading)
This is the third and last part of the brief market review I started a couple of weeks ago. The first part presented the case of the operators that didn’t handle the heat and were eventually thrown out of the... (Continue reading)
The City of Argyroupoli, is a south suburb of the greater Athens metropolitan area. This average size municipality (~33k citizens) is completing next week its ambitious plan for creating a citywide mesh wireless broadband access network - Arnet. Arnet offers... (Continue reading)