I have created a new group in Linked-In, the ” Public-Broadband Debating Group “, to let it serve as a debating medium about the role of Government in broadband development. The purpose of the group is to discuss the public... (Continue reading)
This is not the first time it’s happening to me. The office at the university is closed today, this time due to the eastern holidays. Since I drove all the way up here, I decided to get a coffee at... (Continue reading)
I read Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers these days and the case of Susan Boyle fits perfectly to a simple rule the author lays in one of the book’s chapters. You need to have 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert... (Continue reading)
In an attempt to bring you resourceful news I decided to post a top 5 list from each week’s readings. These pointers aim to bringing you ideas and comments on contemporary developments and debates. It is not going to be... (Continue reading)
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... (Continue reading)
In a report released recently by Microsoft which you can download from scribd , Europe’s future digital prospects are illustrated in flying colors. According to the report, given that current media trends continue their growth, internet consumption will overtake traditional... (Continue reading)
I have been reflecting on the discussions in Telco 2.0 blog on their telco business model based on the two-sided market theory. Essentially the business idea is to to extract behavioral information and trends about tastes and usage of users... (Continue reading)
For the past week, I’ve been receiving contradictive stats from the blog’s feed. By digging a bit deeper to it I found that there is indeed a problem with feedburner lately that was acknowledged by the company last week. However,... (Continue reading)
Graham Finnie discusses some of the issues surrounding Deep Packet Inspection and traffic shaping for the wireless broadband market. My intuitive conclusion is also made clear in the interview, i.e. there is no clear tangible way that network... (Continue reading)
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... (Continue reading)