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It is that time of the year already. I am flying tomorrow morning to Milan for the FTTH Council’s 2011 Conference. There’s plenty of interesting thing going on in the program but make sure that you don’t miss Benoit Felten’s Breakout Session: “Is FTTH Needed for Content & Applications” in the first morning slot of the second [...]
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I came about this today and I thought you might want to know. WIK Consulting is organizing a 1.5 day event (26-27 April in Berlin) to discuss some of the most debatable topics of the FTTH world: What are the key objectives, elements and instruments of the different national broadband strategies? What is the actual [...]
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With the UN summit on climate change being undertaken in Copenhagen from 7th to 14th of December the globe switches the attention to the severity of the situation and the high need for swift actions from all levels of the international community. If you cannot make it to the summit you can find a variety [...]
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I will be addressing this year’s 11th Greek ICT Forum this Thursday 5/11/2009 during the morning session “From the Bronze Age to the Fiber Optics” (bronze aka. copper). The panel I take part in is full with market executives and policy makers and I will take on the occasion to discuss the inclusion of existing [...]
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The INFOSTRAG group organizes their 5th consecutive annual seminar in Syros. This year the seminar is entitled “Leveraging on ICT and Renewable Energy Sources for the Development of Islands and Remote Areas” and I am invited to discuss the policy implications of municipal involvement in NGA. The seminar is planned for next weekend 9-12/7/2009. Should [...]
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From Monday October 20 untill Wednesday October 22, the City of Trikala, Greece will be hosting a community of practitioners from worldwide broadband projects. Representatives from United States, South Africa, Malaysia and various European cities will gather to present and discuss state of art applications, best and next practices as well as their plans for [...]
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Day 2 – Session 3: Innovation in Services Andreas Anastasopoulos, President of Greek Licensed Telecommunication Providers Association (SATPE) discussed the opportunities and challenges of Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs). He argued that MVNOs is the next best thing for service innovation in the telecommunications industry. The core argument behind that is that services and products [...]
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Day 2 – Session 2: Innovation in Networks: Next Generation Access Networks Nicolas Curien, member of the Board of ARCEP gave interesting insight to ARCEP’s future regulation priorities regarding NGANs. If I got this straight, ARCEP is currently analyzing the French market to evaluate the best type of regulation for allowing access to the FT’s [...]
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Day 2 – Innovative Applications of Broadband Internet Session 1: Innovative Regulatory Measures for Competition and Broadband Market The session discussed Functional & Structural Separation from many perspectives. The speakers common conclusion was that Functional/Structural separation may be attractive but it is not an a-priori straight-forward solution to the problem of NGA investment encouragement and [...]
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Day 1 – Session 2: Regulatory Challenges for Broadband Innovation Chris Fonteijn, president of OPTA and member of the board of the ERG presented the Dutch situation as an effective (impressive) broadband duopoly: 94% households are served by cable 99% households are served by KPN 50%-70% of households are served by alternative operators The Dutch [...]
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