Has Ofcom Gone Far Enough in Regulating Openreach ?

Last week Ofcom finally released its long awaited Strategic Review of Digital Communications. It was this document that could have formed the basis for structural separation. It did not.

As I argued a number of times, structural separation

Diffraction Analysis in The Economist

Benoit Felten is quoted in an article in the latest issue of The Economist entitled Battle of the Wires. He talks about whether BT could do more in terms of broadband delivery to the UK to avoid structural separation.

Telecom Italia one step closer from separation

As most of you will probably know already, Telecom Italia announced last week that the board had approved a plan to separate the access network from the service business. Here is the press release.

This has been in the

Another setback for Huawei

I wrote last year about Huawei and the company's struggles to establish itself as a reputable company disconnected from the Chinese government. In the last few days a new setback came to light for the Chinese giant: the Australian Government

Tesltra and NBN finally have a deal!

The internet of fiber was abuzz this week-end at the news that Telstra and the Australian Government have finally agreed to a deal regarding the purchase of Telstra's passive assets currently used for copper telephony and broadband. For more detail

Structural Separation and National Security

Last week I had a fascinating (though short) discussion with one of my tech friends in Sweden. The discussion moved on to structural separation. He said to me that back in the days when France Telecom was looking to buy