Altice has drawn significant attention from the French telecom world since it announced 3 months ago that it would deploy fiber throughout France without public subsidies. The unexpected pledge brought further uncertainty to a national broadband plan struggling to
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
Has the Time for Fixed Wireless Finally Arrived?
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
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
Salvaging Google Fiber’s Achievements
In the wake of Google Access CEO Craig Barratt’s “goodbye Access” post on the Google Fiber blog yesterday, there are papers left, right and center predicting the end of Google Fiber. Barratt’s post tries to sound upbeat, but in essence
Edge datacenters will require denser fiber networks
Yesterday I was at the Datacloud Congress in Monaco, where I had the opportunity to chair a session about the latest trends regarding dark fiber in Europe. The event is a must-go in the field of datacenters and cloud computing,
The Verdict is In: FTTH Wins
A few weeks ago I published a piece entitled Calling Fiber by its Name. Based on a decision by French authorities, operators offering coaxial (FTTLA) or copper (VDSL) fiber based products can still use the word Fiber in their
Calling Fibre by its Name
From a technology standpoint, the various flavours of next generation networks connecting the home have pretty clear distinctions: FTTH, FTTB, FTTC, etc. may sound barbaric to the layman but they have exact definitions. From a marketing standpoint though, it no
The Impact of Market Structure on Broadband Profitability
In the last few years, Diffraction Analysis has been vocal about the virtues of structural separation. It’s not because we’re getting paid to push that view (we’re not, sadly for us) or because we think vertically integrated markets are unfair
Time to think about switching that copper off?
Earlier this week, a short article on Total Telecom was widely distributed in broadband circles. Entitled Portugal Telecom Selling Off Its Copper it outlines how, now that Portugal Telecom has reached a critical mass of fiber to the home customers,