For a long time in the early years of Fiber Deployment we kept hearing arguments that with mobile’s evolution path it was perhaps not necessary to deploy fiber to the home. One day, mobile would deliver the same speeds at
Is Free about to launch 10Gb/s offers in France ?
Before we get into this, let me make one thing clear: this article is pure speculation. We have no insider information about this, neither have we talked to anyone inside Free about it. It’s very likely we’re wrong. But
Advertising the Fiber Experience
Advertising telecom offers is a challenging task, and even more so for innovative solutions : finding the right message to convince potential customers is tricky, especially since market maturity greatly impacts how well they understand the benefits of a
Entering the IoT Market as a Broadband Operator
IoT (or Internet of Things) may seem like the buzzword of the year, but the fact is that even if the scope of IoT applications is only partly visible today, the technology is standardizing fast and strategic positioning for players
The Infrastructure Solution to the Broadband Problem
The FTTH Council Europe conference last week in Luxembourg was a good edition (although I definitely think that the Council’s strategy of going for smaller and smaller hosting cities is misguided) with a number of topics that resonated with me.
To a Well Connected 2016
2015 has been a troubled year on the international scene, and while it isn’t our role at Diffraction Analysis to comment news events, no matter how dramatic, they keep haunting our field as well, with a broad and fast extension
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
NBN Co should NOT open its network to retail customers
It won’t come as a surprise that I follow what’s happening with Australia’s NBN Co with interest. After all, even if I’ve been highly critical of the plan’s implementation and it’s political weaknesses, it still is a national broadband network
DT didn’t shelf its variable rate plans…
There was an interesting and animated discussion on twitter yesterday about the fact that journalists systematically present network congestion due to Online Service Providers as a given. The discussion led to talk about Deutsche Telekom’s pay what you eat
Meet Us in Brussels
Diffraction Analysis CEO/CRO will be in Brussels on November 19th-20th, speaking at a number of events:
On November 19th, Benoit will be one of the speakers at the Swedish Municipalities event entitled Maximizing Fiber Infrastructure Investment in Europe. He