FTTH in Kazakhstan (Would you Believe It?)

It seems that the days of Borat are over: state of the art fiber infrastructure is being deployed into the homes of Astana, the capital city. Not much is known about this project except that the infrastructure is an Alcatel

Milan, the FTTH Capital of Europe

From a technical standpoint, with the possible exception of Stockholm, Milan probably is the FTTH capital of Europe. It certainly will be on Feb. 8-10th since on these days the FTTH Council Europe Annual Conference will be held. This conference

JTL to connect 100k homes with FTTH in Nairobi

I thought I was ahead of the curve with this FTTH in Emerging Markets thing, but it's starting to look like I'm just catching up. This little bit of news has attracted my attention. Kenyan metro fiber provider Jamii Telecom

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

Some Fiber News to Start the New Year

A couple of interesting bits of news have trickled today (but CES is probably going to generate a whole lot more…) which I thought I would share:

The ARC, an association of landowners in France have denounced the deal they

Google FTTH: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back ?

After long months of silence, Google made three announcements this week related to their FTTH project. Well, actually they made two but there's a third less overt one that was discreetly tagged along with the second.

The first announcement came

In which I rant against the all-mobile utopians

Bouygues Telecom launches its “fiber” offer

Announced nine months ago, Bouygues Telecom's BBox Fibre offer will be available in France starting today, November 2nd. Bouygues Telecom will lease a bitstream type circuit from French cable player Numéricable to access the end-customers. After having made some news

Fully Loaded Cost of Residential Fiber in Singapore

Last week ZDNet Asia released a really interesting article entitled Hidden costs to set up home NBN. The article highlights the various installation costs that are detailed in small letters at the bottom of the offerings, including home installation, activation

Radius Infratel Opens Up the Commonwealth Games Village

To those of us who were never part of the Commonwealth, it may seem like a little thing, but to the countries who were once under British Rule, especially in Asia-Pacific, the Commonwealth Games are big deal. And that's why