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

Telecom Italia goes full-blown FTTC

A few years ago, it looked like Italy might be a place where interesting broadband deployment models might emerge. In particular, a consortium of alternative operators all working together pushed a radical proposal to pool resources for the deployment of

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

The growing impact of FTTH

Someone told me recently that an AT&T executive was heard to say that FTTC was their billion dollars mistake. I don't know if there's any truth to it, but one thing I do know is that the impact of the

BBWF Vibe

I've always felt that Broadband World Forum was just the right size for a telecom event. It's big enough that more or less everyone who is anyone is there, which for me – as an analyst – is a boon

This is how they should sell Fiber

The following is an AT&T advert for the DVR capability of their U-Verse TV service. It's conceptually good and somewhat reminiscent of the topic of the old Pacific Bell adverts I posted a few months back.

Avoiding community or family

BT, FTTP, Water and Ducts

Some might argue that it had never really started, but in any case BT has announced that they were resuming FTTP deployment starting this month. Apparently the delay in deploying FTTP was due to other FTTP trials providing a lot

BT must physically unbundle… someday

A press release yesterday by the EC states that the commission accepts Ofcom's proposal to enforce only Active Line Access (now called VULA) wholesaling of the FTTC and FTTH that BT is deploying. The EC adds a provision though that

Reflections on Cable, FTTx and future-proofing…

Last week, I had the opportunity to speak with the CTO of a European Cable Operator who shall remain nameless, at least for now. You see, I've been trying to ascertain the upgrade path of cable for the last few

Back from the (virtually) dead

I've been travelling these last few days with a bad combination of available time or wifi access (ie. I never had both at the same time). The usual consequence of being back is that the workload hs gone through the