In-built failure

Before the FTTH Council Europe Annual Conference in Milan last week I was invited to speak at a private workshop organised by a vendor. Amongst the speakers were three incumbents. All three made presentations on the techniques they were using

The Orange Miracle

Jesus multiplied bread loaves and fishes. In the bible, the story is told of how he fed 5000 with only 2 fishes and five loaves of bread.

Earlier this week, France Telecom CEO Stéphane Richard went one better and mutliplied

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

Friday Fiber New Roudup (Bouygues, Free, NZ and BT)

I haven't been very good at posting these last couples of weeks, for which I apologise. In case you're dying for some fiber news and more besides, here are a few links to satisfy your craving. I will make every

The trouble with ducts and poles

I have written in the past about passive infrastructure remedies to competition. Portugal is one country where such remedies seem to have had positive effects on the market. Applying similar remedies in the UK was a big part of the

Restarting in Portugal

Tomorrow morning I'm flying out to Lisbon to make a speech at the APDC's 20th Annual Congress. The theme this year is Restart, both a reference to the tribulations of Portugal during these last few years of recession and