Orange (finally) clarifies FTTH strategy

The following video by FTTH Project Leader Yves Parfait was posted today on the Orange Innovation TV website. It only exists in French so far (some of their videos are subtitled). If time allows, I’ll do a transcript, but it’s

There Will Continue To Be Suicides In The Company…

I'm sure you all remember the media furore in France and elsewhere about the wave of suicides at France Telecom in the last 18 months. Back then I wrote a piece entitled Of Dinosaurs, Evolution and Suicides trying to explore

Orange’s Exclusive Content Strategy in Question?

According to a short article in Les Echos (France Telecom Doit s'Interroger sur sa Gouvernance, Selon Richard), France Telecom's #2 Stéphane Richard has expressed doubts around Orange's Exclusive Content strategy. The exact quote is as follows:

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Bouygues Telecom to offer FTTx services over Numéricable’s network

Early this week, Bouygues Telecom, the #3 mobile player in the French market announced that they would be offering triple play FTTB services starting Summer 2010. In 2009, Bouygues Telecom launched their triple-play BBox offering over ADSL over the remnants

Your phone bill this month is 46 000 EUR

These things occur on a regular basis and I think I've pointed to a few in the past (and I guess James and Matt might have a field day with this one…) Le Monde published the story yesterday of this

Talking about Telco Transformation on Telecom TV

Around lunchtime today I did a video interview with Martyn Warwick of Telecom TV in their ITU studio in Geneva. Last thing I did before I left and I was expecting them to take a few days to edit it

FTTH: Engage the ecosystem!

Earlier this week, French regulator ARCEP released the most recent NGA numbers it has collected from the various players in the market. France currently has 50.000 homes subscribing to FTTH services and 180.000 homes subscribing to a HFC cable offer.

Video Monitoring Premature Babies

Orange has a really interesting video (with English subtitles) on a service they are trialling in a neonatal hospital. Essentially, what it is is a monitoring system that allows mothers of premature babies to stay in the same rooms as