<?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>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:13:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><copyright>Copyright: (C) 2008 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>Convergence Conversation Info 21st November 2008</title><description><![CDATA[The Weekly Roundup: Friday 21st November Over the last 5 days we&rsquo;ve seen a fantastic mix of all things under the convergence umbrella.&nbsp;This week&#39;s newsletter&nbsp;pays specific homage to those blogs surrounding the NGA debate. From the ongoing debates surrounding intelligent pipes,&nbsp;to the declaration of universal broadband in the UK, and on into&nbsp;questions of the broadband frontier itself. Read on to be informed, stimulated, agree and disagree with the top blogs on Convergence Conversations this week! &nbsp;UK Universal Broadband - declared on Nov 5th by mike kiely of London The UK newish&nbsp;]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/colin.batten.2/the.weekly.roundup.friday.21st.november</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/colin.batten.2/the.weekly.roundup.friday.21st.november</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:14:26 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Who is actually at the broadband frontier?</title><description><![CDATA[There was a great story in the paper that I was reading on the train a few days ago. Not the one about the couple arrested for having sex on a train into Euston.&nbsp; The typically English commuters ignored them and carried on reading their papers or working on their laptops (honestly, in this day and age -- didn&#39;t any of them have cameraphones?). The newspaper I saw rather quaintly reported that the woman involved was &quot;from Essex&quot;.No, not that one, the one about the couple getting divorced because a virtual private detective in Second Life caught the husband&#39;s avatar fondling a call girl&#39;s avatar.I just couldn&#39;t believe what he&#39;d done,&#39;]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dave.birch/who-is-actually-at-the-broadband-frontier</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dave.birch/who-is-actually-at-the-broadband-frontier</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:06:22 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Dutch pragmatism wins again</title><description><![CDATA[This came from the eminent Vincent Dekker this morning. Quoted in extenso: For those who feared (like I did) that the Dutch were loosing their pragmatism...&nbsp;I have a story tomorrow morning in the Dutch daily Trouw that KPN and Reggefiber plan to invest 6 to 7 billion euros&nbsp;for the roll out of&nbsp;FTTH in The Netherlands. According to KPN they plan to do it in the next 5 to 7 years. Reggefiber says 5 years is really too optimistic. I guess Reggefiber is right...We have some 7 million homes to pass.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/benoit.felten/dutch-pragmatism-wins-again</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/benoit.felten/dutch-pragmatism-wins-again</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:44:31 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Power to the People</title><description><![CDATA[Last week, I was invited to speak at the APDC annual conference in Lisbon. I love the city and although it was a pretty hectic day, it&#39;s always fun to be there, especially when it&#39;s sunny. The topic of the panel I was sitting on was Power to the People, something more philosophical and futuristic than what I normally do. I used this video as part of my talk, see if you can spot the connection...(Spoiler: video was self-censored by French media, this is a news clip from the Belgian news and was viewed over 13 million times on Youtube)It was an interesting event, over three days, with a whole slew of prestigious speakers which goes to show, if indeed it was needed, that Portugal really is one of the most interesting telecom markets in Europe.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/benoit.felten/power-to-the-people</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/benoit.felten/power-to-the-people</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Infrastructure Competition</title><description><![CDATA[Last week the Regulatory gratin (as we say in French) was gathered in Madrid for a conference on NGA as I mentioned in my previous posts. I had the great opportunity to meet with Tony Shortall (ex-commission, now independant with Telage) and reconnect with Grant Forsyth (whom I interviewed in the Stav&auml;nger Podcast). We had a very interesting three-way discussion on Infrastructure Competition. Post-conversation pondering brought back this great quote to my mind: &nbsp;&quot;You keep using that word.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/benoit.felten/infrastructure-competition</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/benoit.felten/infrastructure-competition</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:40:45 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>UK Universal Broadband - declared on Nov 5th</title><description><![CDATA[The UK newish&nbsp; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communications, Technology and Broadcasting,&nbsp; Lord Carter of Barnes in his opening speech to the Lords on the 5th of November,&nbsp; made four wishes,&nbsp; 1)full digital television service available on multiple platforms,&nbsp; 2) a universally available Broadband system competitively priced with meaningful speeds,&nbsp; 3) a truly national digital radio network,&nbsp; and 4) a mobile/wireless industry that will do for video what it has already done for voice.This is historic,&nbsp;]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/mike.kiely/uk-universal-broadband---declared-on-nov-5th</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/mike.kiely/uk-universal-broadband---declared-on-nov-5th</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:01:55 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Ring! Ring! Hot News, 17th November 2008</title><description><![CDATA[In Today&#8217;s Issue: Fibre from the home, says David Isenberg; DTAG humbled over VDSL rollout; Nortel reorgs yet again, keeps fibre unit; Telephony Online covers the backstabbing in real time; regional separatists rock the Telco USSR; cuts at Vodafone and BT, profits down at Telefonica; BT Vision gets ITV content; drive your Sky+ box from your iPhone; Mobilkom deploys femtocells; Hulu vs YouTube == sausage vs rose?; more MediaFLO; Qualcomm-powered netbooks will eat our cities; the standards wars are over;]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/simon.torrance/ring-ring-hot-news-17th-november-2008</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/simon.torrance/ring-ring-hot-news-17th-november-2008</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:50:31 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Intelligent pipes</title><description><![CDATA[Back in January last year, Yankee Group CEO Emily Green and I had a discussion about Net Neutrality. One of the aspects of the discussion that I remember from back then was how framing the semantic context of a debate affects the debate itself. Emily&#39;s example was&nbsp; &quot;pro-life&quot;,&nbsp;a superb concept branding, because it&#39;s really hard for opponents to say they&#39;re &quot;anti-life&quot;. But &quot;pro-choice&quot; is a very clever response because it places the devate on a different level and it avoids going into the anti- territory.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/benoit.felten/intelligent-pipes</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/benoit.felten/intelligent-pipes</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:27:55 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Broadband Map of NZ</title><description><![CDATA[Can't beat this. New Zealand now has an ubercool map of broadband coverage and suppliers. And we in UK and EU have........? I can't even find out whose is the fibre going up the A road within 500yds from me, let alone anything useful like where the notspots are likely to be for next gen....]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/lindsey.annison/broadband-map-of-nz</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/lindsey.annison/broadband-map-of-nz</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:10:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>FTTH Community Guide</title><description><![CDATA[I should be promoting my own book but this new FTTH Community Guide may be of more interest to readers of this blog! Although it is deeply Americanised, much of what is covered in this guide bears relevance to those looking to develop community FTTH in Europe. Obviously, the lack of a co-operative or mutual model within the case studies is a shame; however, each municipality seems to be seeing a ROI which undoubtedly has a positive effect on the communities&#39; coffers.ECFibernet is also worth keeping an eye on to see how the sustainability and profitability to rural areas pans out.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/lindsey.annison/ftth-community-guide</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/lindsey.annison/ftth-community-guide</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:53:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
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