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)
As we approach the end of the workgoup Id3 work a series of workshops have been scheduled to present and discuss the deliverable of the working group with the local stakeholders of broadband future. In the workshops, international experts from... (Continue reading)
It seems that FTTH plans in India are starting to take up, seriously. On September 12, Lightreading reported on Bharti Airtel and BSNL’s plans for PON deployments in New Delhi, Mumbai and other places. Last week another operator announced plans... (Continue reading)
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)
ARCEP has recently released the outcome of the public consultation on FTTH last mile deployment guidelines. In a statement Friday, Arcep said it recommends the first operator “to equip a building offers to install additional fiber” in the last part... (Continue reading)
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... (Continue reading)
TTK is a Russian intra–continental capacity supplier focused on providing low latency and high quality wholesale transit and access services to international operators at the shortest Europe – Asia route. The company has a fairly large footprint with 17 international... (Continue reading)
FTTx is a relatively new development in the telecom industry, with relatively small technology & architecture dependences and no historic record. Therefore, many issues relating to FTTx deployments, namely implementation, business models, economic case, technology etc are still open and... (Continue reading)
FTTH advances… ... (Continue reading)
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... (Continue reading)