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Message from Milan
You know the Homer Simpson clip where he complains “Every time I learn how to set the remote, I forget how to drive the car”? That is exactly how I felt after three days of presentations at the FTTH Council … Continue reading
Fibre pioneers light up Ashby de la Launde
Ashby is a tiny village in rural Lincolnshire of just 63 homes and 3 small businesses. Although the village is tiny, it’s probably got the fastest broadband network of any community in the UK with 1Gbps connections between properties within the village itself and a 100Mbps symmetric fibre connection to the outside world. Continue reading
Benoît on the FTTH Benefit Compendium
Why fibre? It’s a fundamental question for proponents of fibre-to-the-home, but it’s difficult to answer concisely or even clearly because the answer varies dramatically depending on where you reside in the FTTH ecosystem. Continue reading
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NGA in the UK: the patchwork quilt
Although Britain was a leader in first-generation broadband, we’re definitely late to the party when it comes to next-generation access (NGA). But the transition to fibre access networks has finally begun, and one image particularly brings this message home to me. Continue reading
Dutch broadband speeds don’t measure up
The Netherlands may be one of Europe’s leading broadband nations, but it’s suffering from a familiar problem – the actual broadband speeds received by consumers are significantly lower than advertised. A study carried out by Telecompaper in partnership with iPing … Continue reading
Public money and broadband in France
NEXTGEN09, LEEDS — What’s the best way for local authorities to encourage the roll out of next-generation broadband without distorting competition? The French experience,
recounted by Gabrielle Gauthey, senior vice-president for public affairs at Alcatel-Lucent, seems to suggest that investing in backhaul is the right way to go. Continue reading
Backhaul bottlenecks
None of the consumer applications being discussed at Fibrecamp Britain today really require fibre, but in a perverse kind of way perhaps that’s a good thing. Today’s community networks are severely constrained by backhaul; until this problem is solved then innovative applications don’t stand a chance. Continue reading
Fibrecamp Britain: a reporter’s notes
It was standing room only at Fibrecamp this afternoon; a measure of the interest in providing high-speed broadband and next-generation access in the UK. Continue reading
Europe doles out funds for rural broadband
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 … Continue reading
France: landmark decision for fibre projects
The European Commission has given the green light to the largest ever government-backed fibre-to-the-home project in Europe. Continue reading
