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Japan’s Broadband Plan Beats your Wildest Imagination!
Written on 27 May, 2009 at 14:09 in Blog, Broadband Strategy, Rest Of the World | viewed 16 times | 0 Comments
The good guys in Japan are driving the rest of us mad with their bold ambitious plans about their country’s digital future. The current situation in the country is fairly simple. 1Gbps connections are already offered enabling users to download a... (Continue reading)
Estonia Jumps on the FTTH Bandwagon
Estonia becomes the next East European country to outline a National Broadband project for the development of high-speed broadband infrastructure through-out the country. According to Associated Press , the Estonian government and telecommunications providers in the country announced a $500... (Continue reading)
Infrastructure-based Competition in NGA: The Best Way Forward?
According to EC’s recommendation, member states have to encourage infrastructure-based competition as the best and fastest way for broadband development [1]. At first, the arguments behind infrastructure-based competition policies seem solid. Competition does good to the market: provides efficiency incentives... (Continue reading)
Update on Greek FTTH Endeavours – and yes, OTE is interested…
Earlier this year the cabinet (the minister and the secretary general) of the Ministry of Communications has been replaced, due to a major Government cabinet shuffle. At that time, the fears that this change will affect the pace of the... (Continue reading)
Amsterdam City FTTH Network Still One Step Ahead
Written on 4 Feb, 2009 at 7:43 in Blog | viewed 1 times | 0 Comments
Amsterdam which was officially given a thumbs-up by European Commission to build an open fiber to the home physical infrastructure only in late 2007 , an approval process that lasted almost 12 months , has now announced a new agreement... (Continue reading)
Municipal Fiber Excitements
In Broadband Cities 2008, one of the things that didn’t attract significant publicity and international attention like e.g. the signature of the iNEC declaration on Open Access by the Hellenic Central Union of Municipalities and Communitites was the creation of... (Continue reading)
Deutsche Telecom burries the hatchet?
Written on 29 Oct, 2008 at 7:10 in Blog | viewed 1 times | 0 Comments
An interesting development is reported by Wiwo and reproduced here and there. Deutsche Telecom (DT) plans to work with fixed-line competition to upgrade its access networks with fiber cables. One of the companies that DT is negotiating with is the... (Continue reading)
Finland to Consider Government Funding for NGN
While on the other side of the Atlantic voices are calling for governmental support to uplift broadband figures, Finland is yet another European country to publicly consider the government funding of NGNs. The cost of the investment would be EUR... (Continue reading)
EC Public Consultation on NGANs Regulatory Guidelines
European Commission has issued a public consultation for a set of proposals that are aimed to spur competition and encourage the development of FTTH. After the end of the consultation period (mid-Novemeber) the Commission will adapt the comments of the... (Continue reading)
Days of Fiber
Written on 15 Sep, 2008 at 5:04 in Blog | viewed 4 times | 0 Comments
Following the announcement of the Greek government to sponsor and support a very ambitious deployment of a Fiber Access Network in the 52 biggest cities of the country Italian government came forward with a similar initiative: The intention to finance... (Continue reading)
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