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Gigabit and beyond: pricing and positioning strategies

  • While residential gigabit access has been technically feasible for years, few service providers have included it in their portfolios. It seemed highly unlikely that the customers would be willing to pay for such speeds, let alone actually perceive a change ...

Is Structural Separation in the UK really that risky?

I rarely disagree with the excellent Martyn Warwick, but sometimes there are exceptions. In an article in Telecom TV entitled BT Threatens Decades of Litigation Over Forced Sale of Openreach, Martin concludes that:

An ill-considered and badly executed sale

Benoit Felten - July 21, 2015 - Opinions, Policy bt - Openreach - shareholder value - structural separation - telecoms - uk

Don’t put your trust in on-demand FTTP…

On Tap by Benoît Felten (benfelten)) on 500px.com

One of the most interesting features of this week’s alternative NBN plan published by the Australian opposition (see my article Australia’s NBN becomes a political football on Telecom TV) is this notion of “on-demand FTTP”.

On paper, there’s a lot

Benoit Felten - April 12, 2013 - Business Models, Opinions architecture - australia - bt - fttp - NBN - on demand - uk

State aid by any other name…

It would be an understatement from my part to stress that I don’t think the broadband proceedings in the UK are going in the right direction. It’s the prerogative of any private business – including incumbent BT – to focus

Benoit Felten - September 12, 2012 - Opinions, Policy bt - state aid - uk

Strange Dynamics in the UK FTTx Market

The UK has been a market of particular interest for me in the last few months, partly because as I noted in a previous post, we have seen a lot more private initatives in FTTH there than in most

Benoit Felten - July 10, 2012 - Fiber, Opinions bt - cfh - fiber to the cabinet - fibre to the cabinet - fibre to the home - fttc - ftth - uk

Hyperoptic: Hypercool or Hyperbole?

Uk_dpUK company Hyperoptic announced yesterday that its FTTH first customers were going live in Wandsworth, London, in a 133 flat estate called Price's Court. The UK tech press gave the announcement some coverage today, though not a huge amount, it

Benoit Felten - October 20, 2011 - Business Models, Opinions broadband - bt - fttp - gigabit - hyperoptic - services - uk

UK FTTP scene crowded… with intentions!

Uk_dp Lately the UK broadband scene has seen a number of projects emerge. There's the Fujitsu/Virgin/Talk Talk announcement, the rebirth of CityFibre from the Ashes of i3, and now this new one called HyperOptic. In fact there are at least

Benoit Felten - May 23, 2011 - Business Models, Opinions broadband - bt - cityfibre - fiber - fibre - fttb - ftth - fttp - fujitsu - hyperoptic - market - talk talk - uk - virgin media

Fujitsu, Virgin and Talk Talk rock BT’s boat

Uk_dp (Note: whenever I mention BT in this post, I mean the BT group, including openreach, wholesale and retail)

Incumbents are facing a difficult conundrum as the market (slowly) shifts from copper to fiber. Short-term financial considerations (and shareholder

Benoit Felten - April 14, 2011 - Business Models, Opinions bt - cisco - fiber - fibre - fibre to the home - ftth - fujitsu - rural - talk talk - uk - virgin media

Friday Fiber New Roudup (Bouygues, Free, NZ and BT)

I haven't been very good at posting these last couples of weeks, for which I apologise. In case you're dying for some fiber news and more besides, here are a few links to satisfy your craving. I will make every

Benoit Felten - December 10, 2010 - Archive, Resources bt - fiber - fibre - france - free; bouygues - ftth - fttp - new zealand - sfr - telecom - uk

The trouble with ducts and poles

UK I have written in the past about passive infrastructure remedies to competition. Portugal is one country where such remedies seem to have had positive effects on the market. Applying similar remedies in the UK was a big part of the

Benoit Felten - November 29, 2010 - Opinions, Policy bt - competition - ducts - fttp - ofcom - poles - policy - regulation - rural broadband - uk

BT, FTTP, Water and Ducts

Uk_dp Some might argue that it had never really started, but in any case BT has announced that they were resuming FTTP deployment starting this month. Apparently the delay in deploying FTTP was due to other FTTP trials providing a lot

Benoit Felten - July 22, 2010 - Non classé broadband - bt - ducts - fiber - fibre - fttc - ftth - fttp - uk

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