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Google FTTH: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back ?
After long months of silence, Google made three announcements this week related to their FTTH project. Well, actually they made two but there's a third less overt one that was discreetly tagged along...
View ArticleSome Fiber News to Start the New Year
A couple of interesting bits of news have trickled today (but CES is probably going to generate a whole lot more…) which I thought I would share: The ARC, an association of landowners in France have...
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JTL to connect 100k homes with FTTH in Nairobi
I thought I was ahead of the curve with this FTTH in Emerging Markets thing, but it's starting to look like I'm just catching up. This little bit of news has attracted my attention. Kenyan metro fiber...
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Is Telefonica finally getting serious about FTTH ?
I've often said and written that Spain was one of the markets that would be the latest in seeing FTTH become a reality. The lack of serious competition to Telefonica in broadband means the incumbent...
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Google expands from KCK to KCM !
In a way, it's like these long waits for the bus when nothing is coming, and you grow really impatient and somewhat annoyed, and then suddenly two buses show up at the same time. Well Google pulled...
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CityFibre appoints Macquarie to put together financing plan
When it comes to discussing City Fibre Holdings, I'm not neutral, since Diffraction Analysis works as advisors to their board. So I won't say much in the way of commenting this announcement, except...
View ArticleGoogle Fiber Trouble
For a number of weeks now, we've been hearing that Google has entered some troubled waters when it comes to its Kansas City Fiber project. The first customers were supposed to be connected in early...
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FTTH Council Europe Conference Take-Aways
The Diffraction Analysis Booth It's been a little over a week since the 2012 edition of the FTTH Council Europe conference ended in Munich. It's been the most attended of the Council's conferences...
View ArticleFTTH Council Europe Elects Karin Ahl as President of the Board
When I was in Munich last month for the annual FTTH Council Conference, there was much talk behind the scenes about the election of the new president of the Board: Chris Holden was reaching the end of...
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Roaring start to the New Year
Rainbow Fiber Paths (CC-BY-NC-SA Ben Felten) We’re only a week into 2013 and already there’s more topics to cover than I can conceivably talk about. And I’m not even attending CES!!! So we’ll be...
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