ECTA Conference in Brussels on Nov. 30th / Dec. 1st

I will be chairing a session at the ECTA Regulatory Conference 2010 next week in Brussels. The conference is two days, Nov. 30th and Dec. 1st but I will only be there on the second day. Still, the agenda for

Restarting in Portugal

Tomorrow morning I'm flying out to Lisbon to make a speech at the APDC's 20th Annual Congress. The theme this year is Restart, both a reference to the tribulations of Portugal during these last few years of recession and

3rd Annual Dark Fibre Convention (London)

Next week, I will attend and speak at the 3rd Annual Dark Fibre Convention in London. This conference is all about fiber in all its forms, from the access to the transpacific. I will be one of the keynote

Can Businesses Adapt to Connectivity ?

I won’t say this is the story of my life, but some of it rings oh so true, and I’m usually on the receiving end, like that Japanese lady at the end.

Very funny, and very true. Let’s hope businesses

Who will be at the FTTH Council Asia Conference ?

Well, I will !

This gives me the opportunity for a bit of an Asian trip. Here are my dates and availabilities:

I will land in Hong-Kong on Monday May 24th for 1 1/2 days.
I will then fly to

Fiber-Coloured Lisbon

I have landed in Lisbon (despite the best attemps of French Air Traffic Controllers to prevent me from doing so) where the weather is pretty dreadful and wet. Still, there's excitement in the air as players in the FTTH field

Want to understand the challenges to the traditional telco model?

In the last few weeks I've been talking (and writing) a lot about the challenges that face traditional telcos. If there's one conference on the worldwide circuit that has focused on expressing what these challenges are it's ecomm.

Meet-me at ITU in Geneva

When you will read this, I will be in Geneva for the last two days of the ITU conference. I'm told that this conference features one of the strangest concepts I've ever heard, Telecom VIPs that you can pay to