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Today is my Nameday – a day when your name is “celebrated”. It is a religious in nature custom (although there is nothing religious about it these days) which from what I am aware of is not very common in the western cultures.
As the day is cheerful today let me point you to everyhit.com should [...]
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While at the 2nd FTTx Telecoms Strategies Conference, Prof. Kalogirou (Consultant of the Central Union of Municipalities and Commutes) presented a slide about the formation of regional groups of cities that aim to use the municipal MANs to bring FTTH offerings to the citizens. Many people from the audience were caught by surprise (you know [...]
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It has been one year already since I first posted on this blog. This is Broadband Prime’s 162nd post since the 1st of April 2008, when I attempted my first timid steps in blogosphere. And what a great time did I have all these months. I hope you did too. The international acceptance of Broadband [...]
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I havent’ been blogging very pationately the last few weeks. I have been trying to tie up some loose ends lately and this allows me only occasional posting (I’ve set one post per week as my low threshold though). Anyways, to share a laughter with you, in these tough times (!), check here the comics [...]
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Instead of sending out a greeting card check this nice little piece set up by Norad offering you and your kids the excitement of tracking Santa Claus’ trip for this Christmas! Santa is starting his journey usually at GMT+11 (in the middle of the pacific ocean – completely opposite of Greenwich) and is heading west. [...]
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The recent elections and the Democrats win of the American Presidency spurred discussions on all open issues in telecom field. I have been watching the complete set of debate coming up to the surface as the day that the President-elect will assume office gets closer. An important issue brought in the spotlights was the Network [...]
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After some serious one-minute thought I decided to take part in this year’s Volvo Ocean Race! Well ok, it is not going to be the real thing rather the online game instead. Better than nothing! And guess what; Broadband Prime is sponsoring my boat!! Talking about being lucky! The race has great interest for telecoms [...]
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“Municipal & Utility Guidebook to Bringing Broadband Fiber Optics to Your Community” is an insightful publication by Public Technology Institute which aims to serve as a reference point for local authorities that want to bring broadband reality into their communities. The study includes an analysis of four US municipal broadband projects, namely: Bristol (Virginia), Burlington [...]
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I never considered myself a gadget maniac. And although I work on the technology edge, I generally use standard technology products. But this little trick is fascinating! A pen that can write (obviously) record (speeches or your own comments if you don’t want or don’t have the time to write them down), upload the recordings [...]
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Broadband penetration (sadly only ADSL fueled) continues to grow steadily. Read more at broadbandprime.blogspot.com.
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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.