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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 ...

The Infrastructure Solution to the Broadband Problem

The FTTH Council Europe conference last week in Luxembourg was a good edition (although I definitely think that the Council’s strategy of going for smaller and smaller hosting cities is misguided) with a number of topics that resonated with me.

Benoit Felten - February 22, 2016 - Policy broadband - infrastructure - policy - rural

Regulatory Certainty Works

When I was in London a few weeks ago to talk about Structural Separation, the New Zealand example was of course very much on display. The increase in compounded shareholder value of the two companies post-separation (Chorus and Spark) is

Benoit Felten - December 15, 2015 - Opinions, Policy infrastructure - new zealand - regulation - shareholder value

An Example of Spin-Off

In the last few weeks, Thomas Langer and myself have been talking about structural separation via spin-off at length, and interestingly yesterday’s news gave us an illustration of what it might look like. I’ll let Thomas describe this to you

Benoit Felten - December 2, 2014 - Opinions, Policy infrastructure - regulation - structural separation

Structural Separation : a Solution to boost FTTH investment

Our webinar on Nov. 18th hosted by the FTTH Council Europe was extremely successful, both in terms of attendance and in the level of engagement and quality of questions. The video has been uploaded, and is available here. The

Benoit Felten - November 20, 2014 - Services, Talks infrastructure - investment - policy - structural separation

Can structural separation via spin-offs help Europe achieve its broadband ambitions?

spinoffthumbWith the advent of the Juncker European Commission, Digital Europe ranks ever higher on the political agenda. There is a risk however that the new Commission continues in the ineffective path of the previous one by promoting the emergence of

Benoit Felten - July 2, 2014 - Reports, Services, store digital agenda - europe - finance - infrastructure - regulation - structural separation

Talking Smart Cities in Stockholm

The week before last, after the FTTH Council Conference in Stockholm, Stokab and Stocholm IT Region organized an event for their customers and stakeholders. They filmed the whole proceedings and have put it all up on a the Stockholm IT

Benoit Felten - March 5, 2014 - Talks infrastructure - IT - presentation - smart cities

How long do typical incumbent shareholders keep their shares ?

Wall Street

Not long, that’s how long.

Stefan Stanislawski writes a really interesting blog post over at Fibernomics.com entitled Typical major telco shareholders hold the stock less than a year – is this really the right type of capital to fund fibre?

Benoit Felten - March 5, 2013 - Business Models, Opinions, Policy finance - infrastructure - long-term - shareholders

Chorus Decorates its Cabinets

 

I’ve spoken recently about the cabinets issues that Openreach faced in the UK and AT&T in the US. New Zealand Infrastructure Incumbent Chorus, while deploying admittedly smaller cabinets has devised a clever way to not only avoid some of

Benoit Felten - November 7, 2012 - Archive, Resources cabinets - chorus - infrastructure - new zealand

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

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