Analysing a broadband ad

Virgin has a new ad for its 50Mb/s service, and it's all the buzz on the blogosphere, thanks in part to the fact that their ad agency apparently sollicited a number of bloggers directly to comment, including our very own

GPON vs P2P Comparison

Yesterday Total Telecom released a white paper written by Keymile and entitled Ethernet Point-to-Point vs.PON: A comparison of two optical access network technologies. As you probably know if you read me, I have written quite a bit on this

Rural Broadband Means Economic Growth

"In other news, water is wet", you might think. And yet the recent study published by the USDA (see USDA Study Finds Rural Communities Benefit From Greater Broadband Internet Acess) is a landmark in that it demonstrates on the

Open Access and Trans-Sector Innovation

There's an interesting Telephony Online article by the decidedly forward thinking Carol Wilson entitled Economic Crisis Fueling Open Network Interest. Based on a report and interview by Paul Budde it lays out the case for Trans-Sector thinking and the

Wind and Fastweb sign unbundling and FTTH network sharing deal

The topic of network sharing or collaborative deployment amongst competitors is a major buzz in the FTTH field these days. The EU in particular seems to think it has found the silver bullet to solve the investment vs. competition conundrum.

La Quille!

I'm sure you noticed the cryptic French post titles recently. I won't explain this one, let's just say that if you read Asterix dans le texte (in the original language) you know what this refers to.

All this to say

“La Fibre Sociale”

Most FTTH projects, whether they are private or public, are based on commercial principles. While it has been recognised that the biggest digital divide may not ultimately be between urban and rural but between those who can connect to the

Book of Walled Gardens

In the last few weeks, and particularly since the FTTH Business Model webinar that I and my colleague Wally held in late June, there's been some serious blogging and press coverage about this piece of research. More recently, I was

OTE cuts the grass under the Greek Governmen’s feet

Kostas Troulos posted yesterday about OTE's announcement of a VDSL roll-out under the title OTE announces VDSL rollout and upsets Greece's FTTH Plans. I encourage you to read his account of OTE's announcement to roll-out VDSL. What I find

Misleading Fiber Advertising by Cable Continues

The following video has recently started airing in the Netherlands. It's the last in a long line of cable adverts that use the word fiber as a differentiator even though cable is not fiber. It is also heavily inspired by