The Low Down on French FTTH (as seen from Australia)

On March 22nd, The Australian published an editorial I wrote on the French FTTH policy model. This came about because in recent weeks the Australian NBN has been under a lot of criticism and announcements on the French FTTH plans

The #1 Connectivity Topic for 2012 is NOT digital rights!

It's the new year, usually a good time to reflect on what's been happening in the past year and what we hope to see in the coming one. These last few weeks I have been reflecting, but the fruits of

They talk with a forked tongue and a dead policy head

In the last few months I have become increasingly fascinated with the political aspects of the emergence of new infrastructures, be it communications, rail, road, electricity, etc. We know that a lot of the debate we see today about the

The NBN Situation in Australia

The eyes of the (fiber) world have been focused on Australia these last few weeks as the bold plan for national fiber roll-out is in danger of dying if the current labor government gets ousted by the liberal coalition.

French

Ambition (Lack Thereof…)

French tech blogger and fiber enthusiast Jean-Michel Billaut pointed on his blog to a recently published study about the electrification of France. According to this study, the cost of electrifying France was 762bn of today's euros.

I sometimes wonder

Of Dinosaurs, Evolution and Suicides…

If there is one telecom story that made the worldwide press front pages over the last few weeks, it's that of suicides amongst France Telecom personnel. In case you're an ostritch and have been living with your head deeply