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Posted on 06.19.07
The US department of Agriculture’s Rural Development program has provided a USD $38M loan for a open access FTTH network in West Virginia. When completed, the ITown Communications Project estimates that 12,624 homes and 1,124 businesses in the regionwill have high-speed internet access — but has the capacity to expand and provide over 33,000 homes and 2,200 businesses with broadband access. Filed under: Business and New FTTH Rollouts and Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.18.07
Telus, Canada’s second-largest telecommunications company has published its FTTH plans in its annual report: In 2007, TELUS expects to continue field trials of fibre to the home (FTTH) technologies utilizing standards-based gigabit passive optical network (GPON) technology. FTTH is one of several competing proposed FTTx standards (where x stands for home, curb, pedestal or neighbourhood) in development that TELUS is actively monitoring. Fibre to the curb (FTTC) with an Ethernet connection to the premises, which facilitates sustained transfers of up to 100 Mbps and peak transfers up to one gigabit per second (Gbps), may be a more practical technology to deploy in new green field neighbourhoods or multiple dwelling units than the current copper loops. In addition, TELUS is exploring business models for the economical deployment of fibre-based technologies in areas currently connected by copper. Filed under: Business and New FTTH Rollouts and Municipal Broadband Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 06.13.07
After much rancor and legal wrangling, the Lafayette, Louisiana municipal project moved one step closer to fruition with the bond sale to finance the project going through. Filed under: Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.27.07
The Salt Lake Tribune reports the the iProvo municipal fiber network is facing technical and financial difficulties. Apparently a fraction of the 96 fiber cable strands are malfunctioning and causing the repair bills to mount. The result is that the network is in the red and is draining the city’s budget. Filed under: Uncategorized and Municipal Broadband Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 02.08.07
Light Reading reports on San Francisco’s plans for a FTTH network to complement its WI-Fi network. So far the FTTH network is in the early planning stages. Filed under: Uncategorized and Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 01.26.07
The French Communication ministry has published an extensive "white paper" on the case for FTTH in France. Much of it is focused on municipal issues such as jurisdiction and finance. Filed under: Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 01.26.07
Good piece on the Burlington, Vermont open municipal FTTH network. Most of the article profiles Tim Nulty, the director. Details on the network are toward the end of the article. Filed under: Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 01.16.07
A study performed by the Dynamic Cities consultancy has concluded that group of 14 northern Minnesota communities would not be able to achieve profitability if they were to build a municipal FTTH network. Filed under: Uncategorized and Business and Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 01.16.07
An advisory group to the city of St. Paul, Minnesota is considering a citywide FTTH network in addition to a W-Fi network. The idea could cost nearly $300 million and would make St. Paul the largest U.S. city to try such a project. Filed under: Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 01.16.07
The Wilson, North Carolina municipal FTTH network is about to become reality with the city council reviewing bids for equipment atarting on Thursday. This article details some of the challenges and profiles other Municipal FTTH networks. Filed under: New FTTH Rollouts and Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.21.06
A new report from Strategy Analytics predicts that Municipal fiber networks being built by cities such as Amsterdam, Paris and Vienna may be attracting plenty of buzz, but their impact on the European broadband market will be marginal in the near term. The report, "Fiber to the Home: Will Municipalities or Markets Drive Growth in Europe?" predicts that incumbent telecom operators and other commercial providers will remain the dominant broadband players in Europe. Filed under: Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.17.06
informationpolitics recently posted some European FTTH statistics that Hartwig Tauber of the Europe FTTH Council presented at a recent conference: (i) only 4 European countries (Denmark, Sweden, Italy and the Netherlands) have any real fibre to the home deployments; (ii) rates of current and planned FTTH deployments in Asia and North America are much higher than in Europe; and (iii) most — 2/3rds — of European FTTH deployments are municipal or utility-driven. Filed under: Uncategorized and Business and Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.16.06
According to this Wall Street Journal article stub, Paris city government is giving reduced prices for carriers to lay fiber in the city sewers (1,800 Km) to deploy FTTH services. Filed under: Technology and Municipal Broadband Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 11.09.06
In a referendum, voters in CLarksville, Tennessee voted with a yes vote of almost 75% to approve a project by Clarksville Department of Electricity to build a fiber access network for triple play services. Filed under: Municipal Broadband Comments: 2 Comments |
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Posted on 11.07.06
This article profiles a recent FTTH rollout for 2,600 residents of Wabasha, Minnesota. A local group of investors spent $3.5 million on the network when the cablecos and the telcos would not invest in the infrastructure. One interesting statistic that jumped out was: Since Wabasha’s system began taking orders in January this year, more than 1,750 households have signed up for Internet. So, depending on how you interpret "2,600 residents", either virtually all or 67% of all households have signed up for the service in ~1 year. This is much higher than the Verizon Fios subscription rate and I assume these 1,750 households turned of their telco phone service and their cableco cable service. The article doesn’t say whether the network operators are yet turning a profit. Filed under: Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.02.06
This article covers the city council debate on whether Wilso, North Carolina should deploy a USD $27.7 million FTTP network. Educational institutions are the most vocal proponents, stating that their current Internet connections are at near-capacity. Filed under: Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.31.06
Wave7 Optics has announced that the City of Auburn, Ind. has selected the Trident7 Optical Access Platform for a new municipal FTTP network. Construction will begin this month, with first priority given to connecting the school system. The network will provide services to all of the City’s business districts, including more than 1200 homes and businesses. Filed under: New FTTH Rollouts and Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.24.06
This document, posted on the Amsterdam CityNet website, gives a country by country list of municipal fiber projects in Europe. Filed under: Municipal Broadband Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 10.23.06
GigaOm has posted an article on the Loma Linda Active Ethernet FTTH network rollout. The unique aspect of this project is that building codes for new construction require external connection points and Cat6 internal cabling to facilitate the city owned network. [James] Hettrick said the city’s fiber plan will cost $41 million, and over a period of 10 years will make back $45 million in revenues. Some of the commenters were critical of the cost structure 5Mbps, 10Mbps and 15Mbps (symmetrical) to residents and businesses at $30, $50 and $100 per month, to which James Hettrick, the CIO of the project, countered that: Our pricing is high for the 10 and 15 mbps plans so we do not undercut their ability to server our citizens when they arrive with 250 plus IPTV channels Filed under: Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.20.06
McClure Telephone Company in Henry County, Ohio USA will use $6.167 million in funding from the USDA Rural Development’s Broadband Access and Telecommunications Program to build an FTTP network providing service to 245 data, 808 voice and 256 video subscribers. Filed under: Uncategorized and Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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