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Next Monday, 19 September I am moderating the evening session “Fibre and Connectivity” of the Data Centres Southern Europe & Eastern Mediterranean Regional Forum. The session aims at highlighting the commercial and strategic opportunities of data centers located in Southern Europe and East Mediterranean. The area is strategically situated between Europe, Africa and the Middle [...]
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It has been a while since I posted on the blog. I am happy to break the radio silence to let you know about the newest report I wrote for Diffraction Analysis. It is called “The virtues and limitations of FTTP franchise models” and analyzes the fundamentals of contemporary franchising in the telecommunications business. Franchising [...]
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The next big thing in the web is going to be semantics and personalization. While the current “version” of the web (i.e. 2.0) focuses on collaboration, user generated content and information sharing, web 3.0 aims at creating (ideally in an autonomic and automatic way) information from scattered data in different locations. There’s a bunch of [...]
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Probably the major and most visible improvement that was brought down to the mobile industry after the deployment of 3G networks was the enablement of high data rates that turned mobile handsets in to high-tech devices capable for meaningful data communications.
At that time practically all mobile operators commenced replicating the legacy CableTV’s gated garden model. [...]
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Finding the killer-app was always the Holly Grail for high-speed broadband advocates, operators and content providers across the world. Public funding in fiber access infrastructures (such as FTTH) is also questioned due to that there does not seem to be enough number of applications available to make the public investment in broadband worth immediately the [...]
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I have recently launched Fiber Camp, a Facebook page that aims at attracting interest to broadband and its associated impact to work, society and everyday life.
Fiber Camp will summarize experiences and best practices of the proven or foreseen use of broadband in all areas of economic and social activity. We highly appreciate cases showing broadband [...]
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Here’s an excellent clip shown in the ICT event 2010 in Brussels. The clip is about the benefits of ICT in everyday life (society, business, research). I like it when broadband is not explicitly mentioned rather taken for granted. Check it out; it is fun and absolutely futuristic! I liked it.
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Usually I tweet this type of information bits but this one truly worth a mention (The excellent wine I had earlier tonight on that perfect balcony facing the Saronic gulf might also have something to do with this).
Back in the ’30s the US Senate was pressed by the telephone company and (has eventually agreed) to [...]
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The UK-based National Union of Journalists supports ISP’s taxation to fund small news firms as a means for growth in the electronic press market.
Back in April 2010, the European Commission issued a Green Paper and subsequently initiated a consultation round regarding the encouragement funding and promotion of small businesses in the cultural and creative industries.
During [...]
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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.
