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I will be addressing this year’s 11th Greek ICT Forum this Thursday 5/11/2009 during the morning session “From the Bronze Age to the Fiber Optics” (bronze aka. copper). The panel I take part in is full with market executives and policy makers and I will take on the occasion to discuss the inclusion of existing [...]
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A few days ago the Observatory for Information Society in Greece released its mid-2009 report on broadband. For those not familiar with this publication, it is a biannual report on broadband developments in the country.
According to the report, Greece had, the 1st of July, 15,63 % broadband penetration (connections/100 inhabitants), which in absolute figures means [...]
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Last weekend I saw the national FTTH project making it to the weekly mainstream newspaper covers. This often indicates that the big thing is at the gates!
Today, Mr. Stylianides, the minister of communications, gave a press conference about the project. The ministry released, in writing, a series of details about the project, the most [...]
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OTE’s CEO Panagis Vourloumis announced this Friday (10/7/2009) that the organization decided to set in motion its VDSL roll-out plans “as soon as possible”. According to organization’s top executive, national FTTH plans face bureaucratic delays and OTE “can’t wait any longer” [Check Reuters and Adslgr.com].
OTE has been testing VDSL for a long time. And while [...]
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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 the Inclusive Public Services Award for a pilot e-health project run by Sotiria Hospital. The [...]
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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.
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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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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 the developments surrounding the FTTH project nurtured by the ministry of communications and transportation which [...]
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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 Society Programm. The FTTH network in the city comes to underpin the city’s efforts for [...]
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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 fast pace [ in Greek ]. According to sources coming from the ministry of Transportation [...]
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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.