Google expands from KCK to KCM !

In a way, it's like these long waits for the bus when nothing is coming, and you grow really impatient and somewhat annoyed, and then suddenly two buses show up at the same time. Well Google pulled one of those

Google Chooses Kansas City for its FTTH Deployment

Google announced a few minutes ago on its policy blog that it had chosen Kansas City as the partner for its community FTTH deployment. The announcement is published in a blog post entitled (aptly enough) Ultra High-Speed Broadband Comes to

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

Sir Jobs Slays the Telco Dragon

Yesterday was a long day for me, I was presenting the results of a study to a customer and talked for nearly 6 hours straight. You would have thought that, sitting in the airport with a 3 hour wait ahead

Yankee Group Webinar Replay

The webinar that Yankee Group held today with myself and my colleagues Camille Mendler and Declan Lonergan was very well attended, and I decided to share the replay with you here. It’s all very interesting (I think) but for those

Google Fiber with Google TV ?

One of the big interrogations I have about Google's FTTH experimentation is whether someone (not necessarily Google) would be able to deliver live TV over IP to their potential customers. The issue is not so much technical (with 1Gb/s there

Fiberfete here I come (tag: #fiberfete)

Tomorrow morning, I'm taking a flight out to Louisiana for Fiber Fete. I'm really excited about this event, probably more than I've been about any Fiber related event in a long time. I just finalised my presentation this afternoon,

Friday Fiber US News Roundup

Clearly, if my stats are to be trusted, no one reads me on a Friday. Still, a few interesting things came up stateside this week (which was actually made last week but I only picked it up today…) which I

Google’s image: greatest asset and greatest threat!

Ever since the Google FTTH announcement a couple of weeks ago, the internet (and indeed the real world, for a change) has been abuzz with rumours, analysis, speculation and downright madness in some instances. In the meantime, I have written