Archive for July, 2008
KPN to open its FTTH network to competitors
Friday, July 25th, 2008Rather under the radar this week, KPN, the Dutch incumbent, announced that it would be opening its FTTH networks to its competitors, in order to maximise the utilisation of their network.
In a deal with Reggefiber (a fibre network construction specialist) KPN will take a share in existing local FTTH projects and build on these as [...]
BT announce £1.5bn fibre deployment
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008BT today announced that they plan to spend £1.5bn to provide superfast broadband to around 10m homes by 2012. The BT press release can be found here.
The BSG has issued a statement welcoming this development, which can be found here.
The broadband speed debate
Friday, July 11th, 2008uSwitch.com has collected data on the speeds received by those who visit their site, and compared them to the maximum speeds these users signed up to receive. Similar to the recent research from the BBC and thinkbroadband.com, they found that the majority of users did not receive the maximum speeds that they signed up to.
This [...]
So what are the benefits of next generation broadband? The economic story part II
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Following the earlier piece, I thought I’d briefly set out what the economic benefits are that are identified in our ‘A Framework’ report, in order to illustrate where we think value would accrue.
The largest categories of private value in the report are: doing things that we do now, but more efficiently; doing more of what [...]