From the category archives:
Ribarroja de Ebro (Riba-roja d’Ebre) is a tiny village in the northeastern Spain that have started its own FTTH project to cover a population of 1350 inhabitants (estimated penetration: 50%), with a budget totalling 200k euros. I think the case is very interesting due to the small size of the FTTH network and its implications [...]
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Weko (the Swiss competition committee) was asked to investigate the terms and conditions of EWZ-Swisscom deal for FTTH deployment. The deal is challenged on the premises of the exclusive rights given to Swisscom for the use of one fiber strand per home passed. The major issue is whether exclusive rights are justified by Swisscom’s participation [...]
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Seine-et-Marne, outside Paris (in the area of Roissy) have finished deploying the first phase of its ambitious FTTH rollout (under the name sem@for77) last year.
Seine-et-Marne aim at 750M euros investment to serve in full the entire area with FTTH access (570k end subscribers) and have signed a 20 years contract with Covage for managing the [...]
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A while ago KPN got a stake in Reggefiber and the municipal network of Amsterdam as well numerous other municipal and/or city networks of Reggefiber.
A few days before we farewelled 2009 and welcomed spreads, austerity measures, IMF and the likes, DongEnergy, the largest power distribution grid in Denmark sold 60% of its FTTH assets to [...]
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About a week ago ICF announced next year’s (2010) smart21 cities. 7 of these cities will be awarded the Intelligent Community award in January. According to ICF, “Intelligent Communities are those which have – whether through crisis or foresight – come to understand the enormous challenges of the Broadband Economy, and have taken conscious steps [...]
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The time is here. I am flying to St. Petersburg on Sunday morning, so early that I think it may be late Saturday night! I am speaking at ICUMT 2009 (12-14 Oct), an international conference, sponsored by IEEE for researchers, engineers, network planners and service providers in telecommunications targeted on newly emerging systems, standards, services, and applications.
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The INFOSTRAG group organizes their 5th consecutive annual seminar in Syros. This year the seminar is entitled “Leveraging on ICT and Renewable Energy Sources for the Development of Islands and Remote Areas” and I am invited to discuss the policy implications of municipal involvement in NGA.
The seminar is planned for next weekend 9-12/7/2009. Should you [...]
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Some time ago I wrote about ArNET, the wireless network of the municipality of Argyroupolis. The project is intriguing by the fact that this is the only large scale municipal wireless network in Greece. So, I asked an interview with ArNET management and Mr. Stefanos Paschalides, General Manager of ArNET, and Mrs. Isidora Lazaridou, Development [...]
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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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I’ve read Rob Atksinson’s and George Ou’s article published in the latest FTTH Prism newsletter entitled “Why Municipal Fiber Hasn’t Succeeded“. The authors argue that municipal broadband has not been successful because municipal broadband initiatives have not proven to be financially viable. The argumentation is persuasive at first reading; however, I’d like to take a [...]
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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.