Yesterday, the 8th Telecommuncation annual meeting organized by the technical telecommunications engineers association took place. It was a very interesting event and this year one of the hot topics was the development of new services and infrastructures, and more specifically what they call digital cities. First of all, I do not like the name digital […]

Read More Digital cities and connected cities

Today Benoît Felten’s post at Fiberevolution raised a very interesting point about xDSL and FTTH deployments. He states that this decade is the ADSL decade and next year will be the year of optic fiber. Maybe this is the case in France, but I doubt that this will happen in Spain, although some indicators may […]

Read More 2010: the fiber year

Now we are in a crisis situation. We all know this. Governments are trying to sort that out so the economies start growing again, but the approaches that they are following may be different… Well, most of them are aligned but Spain is going alone and in the opposite direction. Today, EL PAIS published an […]

Read More Spain is different… also in R+D

I took this piece of text from http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com to develop this post. The Femto Forum and other industry experts have pointed out that LTE is approaching the theoretical maximum information transfer rate (otherwise known as Shannon’s Law) and further improvements will only be possible by rolling out smaller cells. The higher data speeds might not be achieved with LTE […]

Read More LTE and future mobile services will need fiber

Now it is very common to talk about FTTH business models, but in this post, I want to follow a quite different road and talk about social models for FTTH. The problem that we have with the deployment of NGNs is that the investment is huge and network operators work on revenue basis (following business […]

Read More Business models and SOCIAL models for FTTH