Is it the End of the Internet (in France) ?

For the last week or so, the French net scene has been abuzz with rumours of an end to unlimited wireline internet offerings. Comparisons are made with Australia and US capping, and net denizens, analysts and activists are screaming blue

The virtues and limitations of FTTP franchise models

The complexities of operating and selling services over an FTTP network are not to be underestimated. As network and access providers look for ways of reducing commercial risk and increase ARPUs over their next-generation networks, telecommunication franchises emerge as a

Lessons from the Australian NBN

In 2009, the Australian Federal Government launched the National Broadband Network (NBN), an ambitious infrastructure project to bring high-speed broadband to the entire country within 10 years. To make this happen, the government established a publicly-owned company, NBN Co, to

Timing The Infrastructure Investment in Next-Generation Access Networks

In this report, we investigate how the choice of network architecture and the strategic timing of the infrastructure deployment might affect the network operator’s ability to win and retain market share.

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New York Times and Gigabit

Last week I spent an hour on the phone with New York Times columnist Randy Stross talking about Hong-Kong Broadband Network's strategy. It's sometime a little tough to discover that in the final article (Cheap, Ultra-Fast Broadband? Hong-Kong Has

In-built failure

Before the FTTH Council Europe Annual Conference in Milan last week I was invited to speak at a private workshop organised by a vendor. Amongst the speakers were three incumbents. All three made presentations on the techniques they were using

Milan FTTH 2011 is behind us…

I just got back from Milan last Friday, after four super-hectic days.

There's little doubt that this was the most successful of the European FTTH Council Conferences, not just in number of attendees (more than 3000 apparently) but in terms

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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Is TEO a precursor of things to come ?

Today, Lithuanian incumbent TEO announces that it has passed the 100.000 FTTP customer landmark (more specifically, 88.000 on FTTH and 12.000 on FTTB). In and of itself, that may not seem newsworthy, but things become more interesting when you realise

The Slow Suicide of Net Discrimination

The whole net neutrality debate is heating up again, both in Europe and the US. As usual, the positions are quite clear: application and content providers generally support a truly neutral internet ecosystem, network operators support an ecosystem where discrimination