Where will the next Smart City rise?

If you ask someone to name a Smart City, they will probably give you one of the following:

Songdo (South Korea)
Amsterdam (Netherlands),
Masdar (UAE),
Stockholm (Sweden),
Lyon or Nice (France),
Barcelona (Spain).

Whether the city is on this

Plucking the low-hanging broadband policy fruit

Ever since moving to Asia last year I have been looking around for what was happening broadband policy wise and gradually realized how much work needs to be done in this area. Earlier this year I wrote an article for

One Leg in Europe, One Leg in Asia

As some of you may have heard on the grapevine already, I am moving to Asia over the summer. More specifically, Shanghai. I am moving for family-related reasons, but I am very excited about the opportunities this move represents for

Live tweeting from the FTTH Council APAC Conference

To my surprise and delight, twitter is working from China (or maybe only from the Shanghai Pudong Shangri-La?) That means I can (and will) live tweet from the event. Since there's no official hashtag that I know of, I'll be

Hong Kong’s City Telecom has the recipe to spin glass into gold

The first of our reports is James Enck‘s Hong Kong’s City Telecom has the recipe to spin glass into gold.

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FTTH in Bangkok!

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

Chunghwa aims for 1.8m subscribers by end 2009

Amidst the more visible NTT, KT and SK FTTP implementations and the radically disruptive HKBN, Chunghwa is often forgotten and yet they move apace in their FTTH deployment. In Europe, only incumbents that have a serious competitive threat embrace FTTH,