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,
Broadband and Over-the-Top
Plum Consulting has released a really excellent and concise paper on the impact of over-the-top services on the telco business model. It’s entitled (appropriately) Over-the-top – hindering or helping achieve European Digital Agenda goals? If you read me on a
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
Ventura’s Stefan Stanislawski gives the low-down on FTTH Financing in Europe
Excellent short summary of Ventura’s excellent report on funding.
Fixing broadband as a service
Flowing Water (CC) bcimet
Martin Geddes is one of the smartest brains in the business, and a good friend. That doesn’t stop us from disagreeing on a number of things (business related), the chief one being the notion that internet
AT&T was good at seeing the future, not at executing on it…
A few weeks back at the Alcatel Lucent analyst event, author Douglas Coupland treated us to a post-dinner speech on visions of the future. It was an interesting moment, but the highlight for me was these video adverts that he
Diffraction Analysis NGA Workshop in Bogota
In two weeks time on June 1st, my excellent ex-colleague Wally Swain and I will be running a one-day workshop on NGA business models in Bogota, Colombia, on the backend of the ACIEM Telecom Conference.
The purpose of the workshop
FTTH is (relatively) cheap!
In case you missed it, here's an opinion piece I posted on the Diffraction Analysis blog last week, about the relative cost of FTTH and why it's (in my opinion) generally not apprehended in the right way. It's called FTTH
Possible Free Mobile Tariffs and their Impact on the French Telecom Scene
The Rise and Fall of Dong Energy’s Fibernett
In the report The Rise and Fall of Dong Energy’s Fibernett, James Enck explores the failure of the largest Danish utility FTTH network. Quite often, case studies concern themselves with success stories, but we believe that understanding failures is just