FiberRevolution
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: FTTH, [...]
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: FTTH, France, government, telecoms, 4G, FTTN, telecom, Google
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: Google, USA, Orange, 3G, broadband, telecom
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: broadband, FTTH, FTTB, Europe, Russia
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 [...]
Want to Understand the Challenges to the Traditional Telco Model?
As events go, ecomm is innovative not only because of the content it presents but because of the form. There are a lot more speakers than you will find at other events, and they are requested to speak a lot less (15mn slots), thus giving sharper focus to their demonstrations.
Topics: spectrum, wireless, Europe, telecom
A third P2P incumbent in Europe
It’s not an insignificant roll-out either since the plan is for 100.000 homes to be connected at the end of this year and 1 million by 2015. Interestingly, last week when I posted the news about Telia Sonera I again received a number of emails and direct tweets saying that incumbents would never accept EP2P [...]
Talking about Telco Transformation on Telecom TV
Around lunchtime today I did a video interview with Martyn Warwick of Telecom TV in their ITU studio in Geneva. Last thing I did before I left and I was expecting them to take a few days to edit it since they’ve been shooting interviews like crazy over the last five days. And yet it’s [...]
Belgium Considers FTTH Plans
Belgian Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne has announced a 30-step plan to put Belgium on the ICT map. This includes such things as ensuring every schoolchild owns a laptop starting when they are 6 years old and… encouraging FTTH.
Topics: Europe, telecom, construction
Completel Launches Fiber to the Office for SMBs in France
Completel will be the first in France to launch a fiber to the office offer specifically geared for Small and Medium Businesses. The offer will be sold at the same price as their DSL offering and offer PSTN voice in addition to 100Mb/s symmetric internet access.
Topics: DSL, France, PSTN
Telia Sonera to deploy P2P FTTH
Cisco and Telia Sonera announced last week that they had signed a key contract to deploy P2P Ethernet FTTH service in Sweden. It’s been a while since no one really pays attention to FTTH announcements in Sweden…
Topics: Europe, Orange, France, Ethernet
Visionary Verizon?
Now all that remains for Seidenberg is to convince a whole legacy organisation that built itself around and thrived on “command and control” that it’s no longer the right paradigm. And that would be no mean feat. But if anyone can pull it off, it’s probably him.
Topics: FiOS, Verizon, VoIP
Video-Communication and FTTH
The TV is still, by and large, controlled by telcos or cablecos through the set-top box, although that will not last: in between connected game consoles and the next generation of ethernet enabled TVs already emerging in Japan, telcos have a very short window of opportunity to establish themselves as the providers of TV to [...]
