Every day we read articles describing how wireless sensor networks will drive change in cities all around the world, bringing connectivity to street furniture, vehicles, utility networks and so on… In particular numerous Smart City enthusiasts regularly praise low power
Can the Australian Fiber NBN be radically redesigned?
To say that everything surrounding the Australian NBN is a political can of worms would be an understatement. The general elections in a few weeks, with Labor trailing in the polls, may spell if not the doom at least a
Real-Estate and Fiber in Lebanon
After the FTTH Council Europe Real-estate and FTTH webinar (the replay of which can be found here), I was sent this picture by a contact in Lebanon. It’s good to see that – especially in emerging markets –
FTTH Benefits for Real-Estate Webinar Replay
The replay for the FTTH Benefits for Real-Estate Webinar is up on Vimeo. You can find it here:
Video Webinar 18 April 2013 – The Positive Effects of FTTH for Real Estate Projects from paftthcouncileu on Vimeo.
I’ve also
What it takes to compete with Over-The-Top television
For the last few weeks, I have been busy working on a big in-depth report on NGA services. Although its importance can sometimes be exaggerated, TV content is of course at the heart of NGA portfolio considerations, and I
One Battle Won
As some of you may know, US incumbents and cable operators have been lobbying fiercely in the last few years to forbid local governments by law of investing in broadband infrastructure. This morning, one such bill which was to be
See you next week in London!
Fiber Hues by Benoît Felten (CC-BY-NC-SA)
Next week is the 2013 annual conference of the FTTH Council Europe in London. It’s at the Excel on February 19-21st.
Diffraction Analysis will have a booth in the Bronze Booth Area. We
Release: Fiber Project Database
We are very proud to announce the release of our Fiber Project Database.
There are many resources available on global numbers for FTTx around the world, be they subscriber numbers or ports shipped. However, all of these numbers tend
New Zealand Government overturns regulator’s decision on copper pricing
A couple of months back, the New Zealand Commerce Commission (the telecom regulator) announced that copper prices would be drastically reduced as the result of a switch in pricing methodologies from retail minus historically to cost based. As a consequence,
Roaring start to the New Year
We’re only a week into 2013 and already there’s more topics to cover than I can conceivably talk about. And I’m not even attending CES!!!
So we’ll be talking about many things this week,