Strange Dynamics in the UK FTTx Market

The UK has been a market of particular interest for me in the last few months, partly because as I noted in a previous post, we have seen a lot more private initatives in FTTH there than in most

FTTH Council Europe Conference Take-Aways

The Diffraction Analysis Booth

It's been a little over a week since the 2012 edition of the FTTH Council Europe conference ended in Munich. It's been the most attended of the Council's conferences ever, and apparently has become the largest

So this is what 1 Gbps feels like…

Firebrand is trialling 1 Gbps service in Bournemouth over City Fiber Holdings' network. This is what a speedtest on that network looks like.

I have this old blues song in my head now: "I'm gonna mooove…"

Things to expect from the Munich FTTH Council Conference

I'm getty pretty excited at the approach of the Munich FTTH Council Conference on February 14-16th. The first reason is the keynote speech. To be honest, the keynote speakers in previous years (with the exception of Carlota Perez) had failed

Boosting copper: necessary and dangerous

BBWF Europe next week will clearly be about copper. Virtually every vendor or PR agency that contacted me wanted to brief me on VDSL, vectoring, bonding and all that jazz. Just this morning, Alcatel-Lucent announced their big push in this

Google expands from KCK to KCM !

In a way, it's like these long waits for the bus when nothing is coming, and you grow really impatient and somewhat annoyed, and then suddenly two buses show up at the same time. Well Google pulled one of those

Fujitsu, Virgin and Talk Talk rock BT’s boat

(Note: whenever I mention BT in this post, I mean the BT group, including openreach, wholesale and retail)

Incumbents are facing a difficult conundrum as the market (slowly) shifts from copper to fiber. Short-term financial considerations (and shareholder

Is Telefonica finally getting serious about FTTH ?

I've often said and written that Spain was one of the markets that would be the latest in seeing FTTH become a reality. The lack of serious competition to Telefonica in broadband means the incumbent has not serious reason to

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

Milan FTTH Conference Wrap-Up

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