FiberRevolution
Broadband Tax, Tax, Tax!
FiberRevolution France has long been considered to be one of the places in the world where you could get the best value for money when it comes to broadband. It’s very likely that the summer of 2010 will mark a change in that respect. Topics: DSL, regulation, broadband, Google, government, FTTH, E-Plus, telecom, ADSL, France
The Unlit, Unpaved Road to Nowhere
FiberRevolution The Krugman editorial is entitled America Goes Dark and it dissects how the anti-government rhethoric in North America has led to a severe lack of investment or even disvestment in public infrastructure. Krugman isn’t talking specifically about broadband. Topics: North America, Telstra, FTTH, broadband, government, Australia, New Zealand
iPad Owners Are Power-Hungry Bastards
Fibrerevolution ME reports about a survey undertaken by the Daily Mail to 20000 people on iPad owners. The key conclusion, the report states, is that (I quote) iPad users are “six times more likely to be wealthy, well-educated, power-hungry, over-achieving, sophisticated, unkind and non-altruistic 30-50-year-olds. Topics: Google, iPad
Google Holds a Trenching Race!
FiberRevolution It’s an interesting (and fun) way to select a provider for trenching work, but it doesn’t alleviate a particular concern of mine which is that in the context of their FTTH trial, Google focuses too much on the technical side of things and too little on getting the business model right and the ecosystem [...]
FTTH in Bangkok!
FiberRevolution I’d missed an announcement last week that CAT Telecom, one of the state-owned incumbents in Thailand had been green-lighted to deploy Fiber to the Home in Bangkok and neighbouring provinces. The aim is to deploy to 400k homes for a cost estimated at 6bn baht (approx. USD 185m), so it’s a limited deployment. Topics: [...]
A Gb/s in Hong-Kong Now Costs $26
Fiber Revolution HKBN has done it again… In November, they announced that they were lowering their 100Mb/s symmetric service price to HK$99/month, which resulted in a massive increase in customer acquisition. The price of this particular service level was previously HK$268. As stated in their January 11th press release: Topics: Hong Kong, broadband
Bill and Melinda Gates to Invest in Rural Fiber
Benoit Felton The Bill and Melinda Gates Foudation has announced that they were building a fund destined to co-invest in fiber to the home projects in impoverished economies. Topics: FTTH, broadband, Bill Gates, India
Friday Fiber US News Roundup
Clearly, if my stats are to be trusted, no one reads me on a Friday. Still, a few interesting things came up stateside this week (which was actually made last week but I only picked it up today…) which I thought were worth sharing… Topics: broadband, Qwest, FiOS, Verizon, FTTH, DSL
Orange Finally Clarifies Its FTTH Strategy
The following video by FTTH Project Leader Yves Parfait was posted today on the Orange Innovation TV website. It only exists in French so far (some of their videos are subtitled). If time allows, I’ll do a transcript, but it’s unlikely that I will have the time before a couple of weeks from now. Topics: [...]
Cost to Fiber 100% of France: 30 Billion Euros
French consultancy Tactis has released an interesting report highlighting the deployment models and associated costs to fiber up France. This very interesting study (in French) has a few high level numbers that are worth pondering. Topics: government, Google, 4G, telecoms, FTTN, FTTH, telecom, France
Analysis On Failure of Dong Energy’s Fibernet
Last week the news hit the wire that Dong Energy was selling it’s Fibernet FTTH Open Access Network to Danish incumbent TDC. That Fibernet wasn’t a success was not news in any way. When I went over to Copenhagen last year I was struck by a number of things in their operations which I thought [...]
Your Phone Bill Is 46 000 Euros
His first month’s bill was 46 000 EUR. Mind you, that’s only 485 times his nominal fee. How did that happen? According to Orange, he lives too close to Belgium and as a consequence his dongle was connecting to a Belgian mobile network more often than not. Topics: 3G, USA, Orange, Google, telecom, broadband
Broadband in Bulgaria
Did you know that 57% of Bulgarian broadband is FTTB? Admittedly, they have the lowest overall broadband penetration in Europe, but Sofia still ranks 10th in the most recent Oxford Saïd Broadband Quality city ranking. Topics: Europe, FTTH, FTTB, Russia, broadband
New Report Casts Doubt On Chinese FTTH/B Numbers
As early as two years ago, I cast a doubtful look on the numbers that were coming out of the FTTH Council Asia Pacific regarding Chinese coverage and penetration. This year’s numbers are even more astounding. Topics: FTTH, China
National Broadband Network Video
But what does the man in the street understand about the stakes and what the NBN promises? If the Australian man in the street is like the French man in the street, I suspect “not much” is the answer. Alcatel Lucent has sponsored and produced a video that just went up on youtube aiming to [...]
