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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 [...]
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A few weeks ago, Info, the journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunications, information and media of Emerald Press published my article “A business model for municipal FTTH/B networks: the case of rural Greece” co-authored with colleague Vasilis Merekoulias and prof. Vasilis Maglaris. The article proposes a business model for municipalities for the establishment [...]
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Here’s a nice chart depicting the top money makers from ad placement inside video clips on the youtube.com. The business potential from content sharing seems strong enough to drive Sony and Universal into building VEVO later this year. I am a firm believer that there are more ways (other than advertising) to leverage on content at [...]
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The search for the “killer application” has been haunting the Internet business since the beginning of the broadband era (probably earlier but things got uglier as soon as infrastructure allowed for a variety of choices). ISPs are searching for the killer app, in an attempt to differentiate their offerings from the competition. The preferred choice [...]
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The case of Lyse Tele, reported in this article published in Telephony On-line provides yet another practice by operators (both public or privately owned) to stimulate FTTH take-up. I’ll jump on the opportunity and make a short introduction for some nice and creative ways used worldwide to increase FTTH penetration rates. These methods are also [...]
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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 this cozy spot, that shares my name near the campus with free wireless, excellent view [...]
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In a recent article in TelecomTV Juniper Networks recommends telecom providers to enhance their business models with revenue sharing schemes with the downstream content providers. The vendor argues that: “A lot of the content providers are jumping on the bandwagon of contributing HD video over their networks to consumers, and that has been generating the [...]
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A few posts back I made a brief comment on the Free Fiber to the Home project of a small 400 households community in Ottawa, CA. Judging from the very limited addressable market (400 households), the project seems to me more like a pilot project; a case to be referenced as a good/best practice. If [...]
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This weekend a flue has grounded me in-house, in bed or, at best, in my home office. I took advantage (go figure!) of the situation and read more than usual! While I am still recovering, here’s some of the best web readings of my last weekend: The Next Broadband Business Models: As broadband growth rates [...]
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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.
