tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46540272435418055592008-08-20T13:51:03.579+08:00Stephen Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03671744373168657090noreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654027243541805559.post-84717251009896916742008-08-16T22:40:00.007+08:002008-08-18T06:43:37.827+08:00

I have just spent the day smart wiring my best mate's new home which is located in a Telstra Velocity Estate - saving him the $3,000 it would have cost if he followed the advice given to him by the Velocity help line. John [not his real name] is a typical home owner, quite intelligent, but not really a technology kind of guy. He understands the TV and can actually set the timer on his VCR and

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Over the past 8 years building Fibre to the Home solutions, I have regularly come up against the confused views of some vendors who suggest that Point to Point (PtP) fibre systems are more advanced, cheaper and scale better than Passive Optical Network systems. The most recent occurrence was last week, and despite providing one of my white papers on the subject which focused mostly on the cost of

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Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) will reach a “key milestone” on August 22, as this is the date by which carriers must submit the remaining “network information” to the Government so they can distribute to the NBN bidders, ultimately restarting the twelve week clock to finish proposals. The problem I have with bidders relying on this network information (which will be predominately

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Interestingly, we are now beginning to see the opposite of what many incumbents have been scaremongering about for several years. Incumbents all over the world are starting to heavily invest in FttH. As a matter of fact, a global FttH boom is underway. In some counties incumbents are still quibbling about capex and talking about halfway systems (FttN) once a proper regulatory regime is in place,

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The case for fibre in Europe has been revitalised during the last few months. As late as the beginning of 2007 some of Europe’s major incumbents - notably BT and France Telecom - continued to distance themselves from the need to invest in a national fibre network. Now, a coalescence of national and regional governments, regulators and operators are scrambling to put in place effective fibre-based

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Press Release The Acting Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Anthony Albanese MP, today released final instruments setting out the network information that carriers are to provide for the National Broadband Network process, and the rules to safeguard the information. The release of these instruments is a key moment in the National Broadband Network process. It

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In another announcement by an incumbant operator, Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom (CHT - http://www.cht.com.tw/CHTFinalE/Web) seeks to achieve 3.27 million FTTH users by 2013. CHT who currently has 810,000 FTTH/B subscribers is seeking to grow this to one million by the end of 2008. They charge just A$39 per month for a 100Mbps broadband service.

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According to Korea's Communications Commission (http://eng.kcc.go.kr), former state-owned telecoms operator Korea Telecom has passed the million subscriber mark for its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband service. The news indicates a rise of 66% over the six month period from December 2007, when the operator had 600,000 such subscribers. The KCC attributed the rapid rise to the expansion of

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Dutch regulator Opta (http://www.opta.nl) has released a report by Analysys Mason on the business case for unbundled access to fibre-optic networks in the Netherlands. The consultants looked at financial scenarios for the development of a large-scale FTTH network by incumbent operator KPN and the options for alternative providers to access unbundled fibre-optic services or wholesale broadband

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Its like watching the final of the men's 400 metres freestyle at the Olympics. We are all holding our breath as the official announces to the swimmers "ready, set" and there is a false start by one falling into the water (hopefully not Grant Hackett). The swimmers reset again "ready, set" but there seems an eternity waiting for the buzzer to go, the swimmers are getting nervous, twitching at

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In an article on ITWire, Stephen Withers writes about the 'father of the Internet' - Vint Cerf - and how he has lashed out at carriers accussing them of behaving like "young children throwing tantrums". In an especially strongly worded attack, Cerf called for a number of changes to the regulatory environment that included: The reintroduction of common carrier status; Structural or accounting

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With the recent press release by the FTTH council on the United States FCC strategic plan for broadband we are seeing a very similar situation here in Australa; where the initial intent of the Labour Party policy for a National Broadband Network was well intended, but the implemention has so far gone astray. Deploying FTTN with speeds only 30Mbps down and 5Mbps up is going to put Australia well

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A new version of our fibre communities map has been released. This version has a new interactive look and feel which includes a check box selection tool for communities within each state and an expanding tree view to list each community in alphabetical order. The map can be viewed at http://ftthnews.titan.net.au/2008/02/australian-ftth-communities-map.html

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Dutch incumbant telco KPN has announced plans to build an FTTH network to all 400,000 homes in Amsterdam within the next 5 years at cost of approximately €300-400 million. In a deal with Reggefiber (a network construction specialist) KPN will take a share in the company who has constructed several FTTH community projects and build on these as they deploy their network. In a move which has

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Press Release July 25, 2008 The Federal Communication Commission's proposed broadband goals are "too vague and tame" to meet the rapidly increasing consumer appetite for high-bandwidth video and data services, and they need to be more ambitious if the U.S. is to keep pace with other industrialized countries, according to comments filed yesterday before the FCC by the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH)

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Press Release - FTTH Council 23 July 2008. With continued regional growth in fiber to the home (FTTH) market penetration, Asia consolidated its position as the global leader in the march toward next-generation broadband while the United States and Europe also continued to experience robust growth in FTTH, according to an updated global ranking issued today by the FTTH Councils of Asia-Pacific,

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TERRiA is bidding for the new broadband network, against TELSTRA and ACACIA. BRW's Foad Fadaghi asks chairman Michael Egan why he believes TERRiA's bid will be successful.

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Back in June I published an article regarding Teleworking in which a US study found that more than a third of technology workers would accept pay cuts of up to 10 percent to work from home and avoid the expense of commuting to the office. Over the past month I conducted poll on Whirlpool about working from home, and of the 385 respondents, 58% said they would take a 10% pay cut to work from home

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In one of the best articles I have read recently on the NBN, Jennifer Hewett of The Australia writes about how the Government will soon have to explain the practical details of the "big idea" it took to the election. As it has been well published, Senator Conroy likens the scale and importance of creating a fibre network to the building of the Snowy Hydro project, but Hewett describes it "more

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According to an article written by Cath Hart of The Australian, the economic powerhouse of Western Australia would be disadvantaged under the "population centric" policy settings of Kevin Rudd's national broadband network. The statement was made by the WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry as part of its submission to the Government's inquiry into regional broadband solutions. However the

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Alan Kohler of Business Spectator recently interviewed Kate McKenzie, Telstra's wholesale boss, where she said the telco is not at war with its (wholesale) customers. Speaking predominately on the National Broadband Network, McKenzie hints at a contingency plan if it doesn't secure the right to the federal government's $4.7b investment. The full article can be viewed at

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Press Release. The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, today released draft instruments setting out the network information that carriers are to provide for the National Broadband Network project, and the rules to safeguard the information. “The release of these instruments is an important step forward to ensure National Broadband Network

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According to a new report from the FTTH Council Europe, improvements in broadband connectivity speeds are having a direct impact on consumer bandwidth usage, with demand per broadband home growing at almost 20% per annum over the last 5 years. The research, undertaken with Ventura Team LLP, is believed to be the first of its kind to directly test the hypothesis of Nielsen's Law of Internet

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I have recently added a Calendar of Events which I will try to keep up to date with relevant industry events that relate to FTTH, IPTV and high speed broadband. The calendar can be accessed using this URL http://ftthnews.titan.net.au/2007/01/events-calendar.html

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In another FTTH announcement by a national carrier, Switzerland's incumbent operator (Swisscom) is focusing on deploying fibre optical networks to be able to compete with Swiss utility providers. According to Swisscom CEO Carsten Schloter in an interview with Weltwoche, he said that the backbone of Swisscom's network has been transferred to fibre during the past year and the focus is now on

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