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FTTH Council Europe Annual Conference in Lisbon

by Benoît FELTEN of Yankee Group

8 Feb 2010 14:02 No comments

Like I do every year, I will be attending the FTTH Council Europe Annual Conference in Lisbon on February 24-25th. This is a really special event for me as it's the greatest gathering of minds and matter on the topic of FTTx, and it's a great opportunity to meet with all those who count in this field and hear from all those who will count.

In case you are still undecided about attending the event (or if you just didn't know about it), I have asked the good folks at the FTTH Council Europe to hand me over a couple of free registrations to give away on www.fiberevolution.com and twitter. These registrations are worth 453 €, so it's not a little gift we are proposing here!

If you wish to win one of these registrations, you need to do something very simple: More...

Telco 2.0 News Review

by Simon Torrance of STL partners

8 Feb 2010 11:11 No comments

Top Stories

Broadband and Fibre: BT: all right, have those ducts
Strategy and Finance: T-Mobile USA merger rumours - mmm, spectrum
Online Video Distribution: Everyone loves WLAN managed offload
Advertising: Apple: they're planning something location-based
Technology: UFO spotted among the Google clouds - what is 1e100.net?

Potentially seismic news in the UK: BT changes its mind on duct-sharing. Both OFCOM and the Conservative Party are keen on the idea - OFCOM had a survey of some ducts carried out, and discovered that a surprisingly large percentage of the UK's telecoms infrastructure is full of raw sewage, and the Tories have threatened to legislate to force BT to provide ducts if they win the election. More...

Convergence Conversation Info 5th February 2010

by Camilla Young of Intellect

5 Feb 2010 16:04 No comments

The information roundup - Friday 05 February 2010

Here's a selection from the blogs on convergenceconversation.com posted over the last two weeks. Read on to be informed, stimulated, agree or disagree; to add your comments - or to add your own blog!

What is the realistic comparison between FTTH and FTTC costs?
by Costas Troulos of Broadband Prime

Last week I read the latest WIK’s consulting report on NGA. The news coverage mentioned that a Germany-wide FTTH deployment would cost 120 billion euros and that an FTTC+VDSL deployment would cost approximately 40 billion euros. More...

Definitive Views on GPON vs EP2P...

by Benoît FELTEN of Yankee Group

5 Feb 2010 09:00 No comments

If you were one of the early followers of Fiberevolution, you know that one of the first "visible" posts explored the issue of incumbent GPON deployment.I did not know it back then (although I found out real fast!), but I had stumbled upon one of the great religious wars of the NGA world (the other being cable vs. fiber.) I revisited the issue several times on this blog, and over the course of 18 months, I talked on this issue to numerous service providers and vendors.

Last November, I started to write a report that would summarize my views. This report, entitled GPON or EP2P: Choosing an FTTH Architecture is the result of these discussions and a string of specific interviews. More...

The Rural Broadband Colloquium, 26th Feb 2010

by Lindsey Annison of Fiver to the Home - Fibrevolution

4 Feb 2010 22:02 No comments

Rural broadband has moved up everyone's agenda - politicians, media, RDAs, rural organisations, telcos, businesses, and consumers. And about time too! The Final Third (as those who are deemed unviable to the telcos have been christened), are now front page media material. So.... as we have been doing for almost a decade now, we are holding three FTTH colloquium events during 2010 to Make The Final Third Happen.

For far too long, the rural voice has been unheard: great ideas, commitment, innovation, dedication, and actual JFDI networks have been ignored; many ~~f*&^w$%*s~~ politicians and policy makers, regulators, rural agencies, (sadly, even businesses, citizens and consumers too) have fallen for the hype that there is "no money in connecting those who choose to live outside the cities".... More...

Survey: What is the biggest challenge to the connected home proposition?

by Colin Batten of Intellect

4 Feb 2010 14:33 No comments

Is it Coherent Policy; Consumer Confusion; Maintenance; Security Concerns; Spectrum Constraints; or Standardisation & Interoperability?

You can find the RESULTS so far and VOTE here. (voting options on the left hand side)

We'll post the results here shortly.

Agenda Preview - 9th Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm, 28-29 April, London

by Simon Torrance of STL partners

4 Feb 2010 12:29 No comments

The next Telco 2.0 EMEA Executive Brainstorm will take place on 28th-29th April at the Grange Hotel in London, with a pre workshop on 'Core Telco 2.0 concepts' on the afternoon of the 27th. Below is a detailed preview of the agenda for our readers. If you would like to book a place, please email us. Early-bird and alumni discounts are available now.

Event Objective

To move the Telco 2.0 debate on from the conceptual use cases shared at the 7th (EMEA) and 8th (AMERICAS) Executive Brainstorms to actionable next steps. Through a combination of sessions on trends and specific market opportunities that feature real examples of Telco 2.0 implementations, the audience will hear and participate in debates about how and where to start on the Telco 2.0 roadmap. More...

Traffic management and offload - diverging solutions

by Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis

3 Feb 2010 08:09 No comments

One of the major trends I'm seeing at the moment is that of mobile network offload - typically "dumping" traffic onto WiFi or other networks to avoid congestion from mobile broadband.

I'm expecting it to be a huge feature of this year's MWC / 3GSM in Barcelona.

But at first sight the offload trend seems to be a confusing mish-mash of technologies and techniques, all designed to reduce the impact of bulk traffic on cellular networks, but applied in very different ways. I'm trying to start to categorise these various areas, and also work out how they are being prioritised. More...

Reply to Mandelson

by Lindsey Annison of Fiver to the Home - Fibrevolution

2 Feb 2010 20:25 No comments

There are times when Facebook campaigns in response to Westminster lunacy bring out the genius in the British .....There's no two ways about it, Mr Mandelson, this is for you.

Challenging the Single Bill Idyll

by Lindsey Annison of Fiver to the Home - Fibrevolution

2 Feb 2010 14:35 No comments

Am trying to work through all my notes from the States and thought I would run this issue by you and see what you think....I call it the "Single Bill Idyll".

I had the opportunity to ask some of the founders of some of the most successful FTTH networks (rural and mixed urban-rural) "What would you do differently if you were starting today?" Bear in mind, some of these projects have been going for 10 years (yup, we are a *long* way behind). The world has changed considerably in that time, so plenty of lessons have been learnt by these guys, which happily they shared with me, on many aspects of FTTH network operations. More...

Rural Broadband Coalition & Colloquium

by Lindsey Annison of Fiver to the Home - Fibrevolution

2 Feb 2010 13:10 No comments

The emphasis for the need to 'up the pace' on delivering rural connectivity increases by the day....

It seems that the message is slowly sinking in - it is time to stop talking and start doing. However, there is still a need to educate across all levels so that the right (political) decisions are made to deliver the required EndGame.

Dr Charles Trotman, CLA has just emailed regarding the need for a broadband coalition in order to get co-operation and collaboration in solving the problem. (see below for the text of the email)

The first meeting to establish how such an organisation will be run is arranged for 2nd March in London. More...

Two-Sided Telco Transaction Processing for Upstream Industries: Guest Post

by Simon Torrance of STL partners

1 Feb 2010 13:24 No comments

This is a guest post from Fergus O'Reilly of SAP. Fergus has written here on the subjects of Billing as a Revenue Opportunity and Monetising app stores. Here, he tackles CRM and two-sided business models. SAP will be exhibiting at Mobile World Congress (Feb 15-18) and hosting a roundtable with Accenture, RIM, Telus and Microsoft on this topic of monetizing services across multiple industries in Barcelona on Feb 15 (details here).

The dynamics of the multi-sided business models for the Telecoms industry are well explored by the Telco 2.0 initiative. But what are the implications as this model is adopted by other industries? And how can telcos leverage their rating and billing capabilities to gain new business by empowering these other industries in their business model transformation?

The global explosion of the Internet, of wireless networks, and the rise in broadband capacity is constantly transforming how we connect to the world. More...

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