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 and Dec. 1st but I will only be there on the second day. Still, the agenda for

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

In an era where the buzzwords about broadband and the internet seem to be caps and hogs, it's reassuring and exciting to see someone trying to buck the trend and offer what customers want as opposed to what he thinks

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) and as such a second round of numbers was released. I won't dwell

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 and FTTH deployment incentives.

In North America, there's a clear trope

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 and measurably

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 Future Fiber Architectures and Local Deployment Choices. The panel was set up and organised by

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, but luckily my good friend and sharp-witted brainiac Rudolf is doing that for me. Rudolf is attending

“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 and