<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>All featured posts</title><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com</link><description>A feed of all new featured content on Convergence Conversation</description><language>en-gb</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:27:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><copyright>Copyright: (C) 2010 Convergence Conversation and contributing authors.  For full copyright info and terms of use visit http://www.convergenceconversation.com/</copyright><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>Convergence Conversation</title><url>http://www.convergenceconversation.com//lib/img/rssimg.png</url><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com</link></image>	<item><title>Interview: Sue White (Alcatel Lucent)</title><description><![CDATA[The second interview I managed to do in Lisbon was of Sue White, who is in charge of Alcatel Lucent's recently unveiled HLN strategy. I asked Sue to explain what HLN was and how it affected Next Generation Access deployment strategies. I apologise for the intense shakiness on this video. Definitely need to get a zi8!]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/benoit.felten/interview-sue-white-alcatel-lucent</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/benoit.felten/interview-sue-white-alcatel-lucent</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>The Three Little Pigs</title><description><![CDATA[Once upon a time there were three little pigs - FTTC, Docsis 3 and FTTH. The first little piggy set off into the wide world of broadband and built himself a cabinet. He was pretty confident that he could do everything required from there but along came the mean old big bad wolf &ndash; the consumer - and blew all of his plans out the water with apps and services he had never even heard of. FTTC simply couldn&#39;t do what everyone needed to. He ran to his friends and told them he&#39;d underestimated the consumer, I mean, the Big Bad Wolf.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/lindsey.annison/the-three-little-pigs</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/lindsey.annison/the-three-little-pigs</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:36:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>We Are All Consumers</title><description><![CDATA[Following the announcement of the Final Third First Campaign last week, there have been many conversations about what FTFC is about, who are founders, who are observers. The reality is that we are all consumers where the 4th Utility is concerned -from the chairman of BTto the grandparents wanting to keep in touch with family in New Zealand,to the children anxious to avoid detention for not completing their homework online,to the person with health problems wanting to live independently in their own]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/guy.jarvis/we-are-all-consumers</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/guy.jarvis/we-are-all-consumers</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:15:24 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Dear JON letter?</title><description><![CDATA[Posted by Guy Jarvis: Interesting post from Adrian Wooster of CBN that leaves as many questions unanswered as it offers concerning the "JON" concept -Comment posted as follows:Adrian,To summarise your thinking into a single sentence then -Public Sector pays a per home VLAN (de facto partial cost underpinning of overall connectivity provision) and this encourages the market to build out Next generation Access networks?The idea has merit, so long as the principles of the open market apply and that]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/lindsey.annison/dear-jon-letter</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/lindsey.annison/dear-jon-letter</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:11:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Google&#39;s image: greatest asset and greatest threat!</title><description><![CDATA[Ever since the Google FTTH announcement a couple of weeks ago, the internet (and indeed the real world, for a change) has been abuzz with rumours, analysis, speculation and downright madness in some instances. In the meantime, I have written and published my own analysis of the announcement, accessible to Yankee Group customers under the title Google&#39;s FTTH Experiment Could Profoundly Reshape US Wireline Landscape.This has led me to also take a deeper look at how bloggers, newspapers and tweeters have dealt with this piece of news and I was surprised and - to a certain extent - dismayed as well to see how polarizing Google&#39;s image is.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/benoit.felten/google39s-image-greatest-asset-and-greatest-threat</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/benoit.felten/google39s-image-greatest-asset-and-greatest-threat</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>"You can't use my eyeballs for free"</title><description><![CDATA[Let's look forward 10 years.We've all got augmented reality browsers on our handsets, or perhaps our 4G-connected sunglasses. They can overlay all sorts of data and images onto our field of view.There's a plethora of micropayment systems available, accessible via APIs to any developer with the right tools.There are open and closed appstores. Any app you can imagine is available for unlocked devices.Operators are starting to monetise contextual advertising - there are digital posters, sponsorship of content, location-based coupons.And then there's the sudden backlash."You can't use my eyes for free""My visual cortex isn't a dumb pipe""I spend lots of money on contact lenses &amp;]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/you-cant-use-my-eyeballs-for-free</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/you-cant-use-my-eyeballs-for-free</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:59:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Telco 2.0 News Review</title><description><![CDATA[Telco 2.0 Top Stories Broadband Connectivity: FCC to switch USF over to fibre deployment, and back PSTN replacement?Regulation: BSG - bring us your cost estimates and help build UK broadbandEmerging Markets:]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/simon.torrance/telco-2.0-news-review-10</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/simon.torrance/telco-2.0-news-review-10</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:52:41 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Interview: Wolfgang Fischer (Cisco)</title><description><![CDATA[I did a few interviews at the FTTH Council Europe Annual Conference in Lisbon before my zi6 camera failed me. I also think I need to upgrade to the zi8 for stability and sounds reasons, but that's another topic. Anyway, here is the first of the two interviews I could salvage, and it's with Wolfgang Fischer, the FTTH guru of Cisco in Europe:]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/benoit.felten/interview-wolfgang-fischer-cisco</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/benoit.felten/interview-wolfgang-fischer-cisco</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>UK Govt can't see the wood for the trees</title><description><![CDATA[Just to illustrate this point, take two minutes and watch this video. How many times do the white team pass the ball between each other? When you have the answer, come back here..... Right, how many times did the white team pass the ball between each other??Post your answers below.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/lindsey.annison/uk-govt-cant-see-the-wood-for-the-trees</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/lindsey.annison/uk-govt-cant-see-the-wood-for-the-trees</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:22:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>FTTH - don't call it 'broadband'</title><description><![CDATA[Whilst I was in the States, I was told over and over again, "Don't call it 'broadband'- it's FTTH". The point being that what has been manipulated by telco marketing departments to be a meaningless nothing about speed, contention, services available etc (broadband) cannot hold a candle to what we are all aiming for. I know there are 101 arguments for FiWi, or I would never have coined the term in the first place, but the reality is that what we are looking to do is not improve a struggling infrastructure incrementally, but go for a major step change instead.I have just received two articles which bear reading on this matter.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/lindsey.annison/ftth---dont-call-it-broadband</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/lindsey.annison/ftth---dont-call-it-broadband</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:24:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
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