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Gigabit and beyond: pricing and positioning strategies

  • While residential gigabit access has been technically feasible for years, few service providers have included it in their portfolios. It seemed highly unlikely that the customers would be willing to pay for such speeds, let alone actually perceive a change ...

Salvaging Google Fiber’s Achievements

In the wake of Google Access CEO Craig Barratt’s “goodbye Access” post on the Google Fiber blog yesterday, there are papers left, right and center predicting the end of Google Fiber. Barratt’s post tries to sound upbeat, but in essence

Benoit Felten - October 27, 2016 - Fiber, Opinions fiber - google - us

The Right to be Forgotten

For the last few days I’ve been musing about the recent “right to be forgotten” that has been imposed on Google (and, presumably other search engines, although I haven’t looked at Bing and others in any detail on this issue).

Benoit Felten - June 2, 2014 - Opinions, Policy EU - european union - google - legislation - personal data - right to be forgotten

Net Neutrality Debate à la Française

Over the Seine

Since the recent (and thankfully short lived) decision by Free to block Google’s advertising content for users of their set-top box, the French net (from government to activists) has been abuzz. Even the international tech press has commented on what

Benoit Felten - January 16, 2013 - Net neutrality, Opinions, Services france - free - google - legislation - net neutrality - pellerin - regulation

Promises, promises

The State of Kansas

Well, looks like I overpromised on my blogging. I had all these great plans for last week, and then real life and (thankfully) real work hit me in the chest like a sledgehammer.

As some of you may be aware,

Benoit Felten - January 15, 2013 - Fiber, Opinions broadband - france - free - google - google fiber - kansas - kansas city - USA - wired

Eric Schmidt, the New Escapist

Someone hinted at me recently that one of the reasons Google didn’t want to invest in peering / transit in France – leading to some of the disagreements on who should bare the cost of it as currently investigated by

Benoit Felten - December 13, 2012 - Business Models, Opinions evil - good - google - tax evasion - tax haven

How disruptive could Google Fiber be?

The excellent Bill St Arnaud posts a very interesting analysis today of the Google Fiber project in Kansas City on his blog under the title Google’s secret strategy with the Kansas City Fiber project. In this post, Bill states

Benoit Felten - July 12, 2012 - Business Models, Opinions fiber - ftth - google - kansas city - USA

Reading too much from the Google Fiber blog?

Us_dpThe Google Fiber blog released an interview of a Google Technical Manager talking about the deployment (in a heavily PR oriented way) a few days ago entitled: A Construction Update. It's frustratingly short and although it leaves me wondering

Benoit Felten - April 6, 2012 - Non classé fiber - fibre - ftth - google - kansas city

Online Service Providers Discover the Real World

I've been meaning to write about this for a while. The coverage of a number of recent legal "happenings" around online service providers has puzzled me and I wanted to weigh in on perhaps an opposite direction. 

In the connectivity

Benoit Felten - March 13, 2012 - Business Models, Opinions, Policy competition - google - internet - online service providers - regulation

Google Fiber Trouble

For a number of weeks now, we've been hearing that Google has entered some troubled waters when it comes to its Kansas City Fiber project. The first customers were supposed to be connected in early 2012, and that's clearly not

Benoit Felten - January 24, 2012 - Fiber, Opinions fiber - google - infrastructure - kansas city - pole attachments - surewest

Is Google FTTH Coming to Europe?

The new news making a low buzz this week-end stemmed from a comment made by Google's SVP David Drummond last Friday in Paris, that Google was "looking very closely" at a European FTTH endeavour. It's unclear whether Drummond was talking

Benoit Felten - October 24, 2011 - Business Models, Opinions europe - ftth - google

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