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Posted on 10.24.07
France Telecom has announced its proposal to open its ducts to its competitors. Access to existing civil engineering structures will include all information relevant to operators (maps, chamber locations, etc.), enabling them to install their own FTTH network by applying appropriate engineering rules. Filed under: Business and Regulatory Environment Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.15.07
XFONE has announced that NTS Communications has recently been approved by the United States Department of Agriculture to receive $11.8 million in Rural Utilities Service (RUS) broadband loan funding for the purchase and installation of the network, central office and customer premise equipment that will make up NTS’ Fiber-to-the-Premise (FTTP) optical network to be constructed in the Levelland and Smyer, Texas markets. The term of the loan is 17 years, with interest only to be paid in the first year. Filed under: Business and Regulatory Environment Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.15.07
The New Zealand Institute has come out strongly lobbying for a national fibre to the home rollout saying it has identified national economic benefits from broadband in the range of $NZ2.7-$NZ4.4 billion per year with further upside potential possible. Filed under: Business and Regulatory Environment Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.24.07
This Lightwave article details the latest progress on European FTTH. Included is a nice chart showing FTTx penetration in European countries. Filed under: Business and New FTTH Rollouts and Regulatory Environment Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.29.07
The Ministry of Energy, Water and Communications is in talks with Telekom Malaysia to provide high speed fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) links in selected urban areas to increase broadband penetration in Malaysia. Filed under: New FTTH Rollouts and Regulatory Environment Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.07.07
Here is additional information to follow up on a previous post about, ARCEPs, (the French telecom regulatory agency) decision to mandate FTTH carriers to share civil engineering infrasructure. Quote from the press release: "It is indispensable that the terminal part of networks be shared:
Also, here’s a telling interview with one of the French regulators, Gabrielle Gauthey (Member of ARCEP’s executive board). It’s clear that government – at the central and local level – has a decisive role to play in facilitating the upgrade of the future local loop. Central and local government authorities must first reduce the entry barriers for all players by encouraging the sharing of civil work and the cabling of buildings.
Filed under: Regulatory Environment Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.06.07
This from a Reuters India article: In an interview with the French daily Les Echos, the head of Arcep, Paul Champsaur, said the regulator wanted France Telecom, the country’s leading operator, to rent its underground fibre optic ducts to other operators. "We hope to be able to ask the Competition Council for its recommendation in early 2008 so that the (duct rental) offer be ready in spring 2008," Champsaur said.
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Posted on 05.31.07
PacketFront has announced that its complete Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) solution has attained Technical Acceptance by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS). Filed under: Regulatory Environment Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.31.07
This article in a Connecticut daily details the complaints that independent telcos Thames Valley Communications and Fiber Technology Networks LLC are putting forward on obtaining rights of way on utility poles in order to deploy fiber access networks. Companies or towns that want to use fiber-optic networks to deliver services must apply to AT&T to get space on the utility poles as they expand their networks in what are considered “public rights of way.” AT&T jointly owns most of the state’s more than 800,000 utility poles with CL&P, United Illuminating and smaller outfits, and handles telecommunication connections for the utilities, Moreira said. Filed under: Regulatory Environment Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.24.07
According to this article, which first appeared in Bangkok Post, even though Europe is lagging in total FTTH deployments, it is a leader in deployment of "open" public-private business models for new FTTH rollouts. He used the example of Free in France, which is spending around 1 billion euros (US$1.3 billion) until 2012 to cover 4 million households. In this case the authorities allowed Free to use the city sewers as a way to cost-effectively lay the fiber infrastructure, which will then be open for other network operators to use. Filed under: Business and Regulatory Environment Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 03.12.07
The FTTH Council has issued a new recommnedation for a national broadband policy: The Fiber-to-the-Home Council proposes a goal of providing affordable access to next-generation broadband networks to a majority of Americans by 2010 with universal access by 2015. To ensure that consumers can both receive and transmit video and other high-speed services, applications, and content, these networks should have transmission speeds in excess of 100 Mbps and symmetrical access capabilities. More details in the document. Filed under: Regulatory Environment Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.27.07
Arstechnica reports that the European Union has initiated proceedings to nullify a new German law limiting competitive services over Deutche Telecom’s soon-to-be-built fiber access network. Filed under: Regulatory Environment Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.16.06
Reporting from DigiWorld 2006, Telcommunications Online has solicited quotes on the subject of FTTH regulation from French and German telecom regulators: Unlike the German regulator, which sides with the European Commission and vehemently opposes giving Deutsche Telekom a so-called ‘regulatory holiday’ on its FTTN investment, a spokesperson from ARCEP – the French regulator – appeared to take a slightly more non-committal approach to the issue Filed under: Regulatory Environment Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.16.06
The FTTH Council has released a 7 page document that lists "official" definitions of commonly used FTTH terms. Example: “Point-to-Point” (P2P) cable plant provides optical paths from the telecommunications operator’s switching equipment to a single contiguous location such that the optical paths are dedicated to traffic to and from this single location. In generic terms this is a star topology. Filed under: Technology and Regulatory Environment Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.13.06
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has released a new report titled "OECD Broadband Statistics to June 2006". Here’s comments relevant to FTTH: -Fibre to the home is becoming increasingly important for broadband access, particularly in countries with high broadband penetration. In Denmark, Danish power companies are rolling out fibre to consumers as they work to bury overhead power lines. Municipal broadband projects are also expanding in many northern European countries and throughout the OECD. Telecommunciation operators in several OECD countries have also begun or announced large fibre-to-the-premises rollouts. -Japan leads the OECD in fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) with 6.3 million fibre subscribers in June 2006. Fibre subscribers alone in Japan outnumber total broadband subscribers in 22 of the 30 OECD countries. -The total number of ADSL subscriptions in Korea and Japan have continued to decline as more users upgrade to fibre-based connections.
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Posted on 10.11.06
French Minister for Industry François Loos has announced that he wants service providers to provision 4M FTTH Connections by 2012. Loos will have little difficulty persuading French telecommunications operators to help him reach his goal. France Télécom’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Didier Lombard was next on stage. He said of the minister’s target, "I think we will do better than that."
Filed under: Uncategorized and New FTTH Rollouts and Regulatory Environment Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.09.06
The city of Wilson, North Carolina USA is proposing to build a $27.7 million FTTP network. EMBARQ which sells local telehone service in the area claims that, according to North Carolina legislation, this municipal network could be illegal. Pro and con arguments and advantages of FTTP are presented in this article. Filed under: Regulatory Environment and Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.09.06
According to Jim Baller, widely considered the top municipal broadband legal advocate, the regulatory environmnent is beginning to look more positive for municipal broadband. Verizon and AT&T are taking a less combative approach and legal cases have been won recently. Also, "According to Render Vanderslice & Associates, municipalities and utilities serve 7% of the fiber-to-the-premises subscribers in North America today." Filed under: Uncategorized and Regulatory Environment and Municipal Broadband Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.02.06
Read this article to get a feel for where FTTH is going in Japan, South Korea, and China. Main themes: cutting edge physical lasyer technology research in Japan, convergence network in Korea, and government initiatives in China. Filed under: Technology and Regulatory Environment Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.02.06
After recently putting a hold on a city-funded FTTH proposal, Palo Alto, California (in the heart of Silicon Valley) has issued a new request for proposals for FTTH. Filed under: New FTTH Rollouts and Regulatory Environment Comments: 17 Comments |
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