Author Archives: Pauline

Europe doles out funds for rural broadband

By Pauline | Published: October 26, 2009
Amidst all the brouhaha over broadband stimulus funding in the US, it’s easy to forget that Europe has its very own economic stimulus package, called the European Economic Recovery Plan (EERP), with an allocation of €1.0 billion to be spent on broadband in rural areas between 2009 and 2013. And last week the first wave [...]
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Digital inclusion: the numbers game

By Pauline | Published: October 23, 2009
If you want to encourage people to use the internet, don’t appeal to their hearts and minds, appeal to their wallets. That seems to be the strategy of the UK’s Digital Inclusion Task Force, which says digitally excluded households are missing out on average savings of £560 per year from shopping and paying bills [...]
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France: landmark decision for fibre projects

By Pauline | Published: October 22, 2009
The European Commission has given the green light to the largest ever government-backed fibre-to-the-home project in Europe.
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Starting out with Samknows

By Pauline | Published: October 12, 2009
Today I started a new gig — writing news for the website www.samknows.com.
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When was the last time you read the newspaper in the loo?

By Pauline | Published: October 6, 2009
The "Did you know? /Shift happens" video has been updated.
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French fibre ultimatum

By Pauline | Published: September 29, 2009
The French President Nicolas Sarkozy has given the country’s four main telecoms operators just two weeks to come up with a solution for fibre-to-the-home.
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FTTH global rankings – H1 2009

By Pauline | Published: September 29, 2009
The message from the FTTH Councils is that it's "business as usual" despite the recession.
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The lowdown on Highams Park

By Pauline | Published: September 24, 2009
Highams Park is unique in the UK because it is the first location for a trial of fibre-to-the-premises on a brownfield site.
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ECOC 2009: Technology, money, people

By Pauline | Published: September 23, 2009
Here’s a copy of my leader article in the ECOC magazine: And so to Vienna for the 35th year of ECOC, which is billed — quite rightly in my view — as the leading optical networking event in Europe. Personal highlights from last year included the post-deadline paper from Alcatel-Lucent and Draka, which reported 40 [...]
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When things are quiet on the blog…

By Pauline | Published: September 16, 2009
I like cables of all kinds, especially cables that lead to the top of a mountain…
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