Making Broadband Policy More Effective
When you’ve been working on broadband policy as long as I have, you know one thing for sure: while everyone agrees that broadband policy is necessary, as soon as you start looking at what it should...
View ArticleEdge datacenters will require denser fiber networks
Yesterday I was at the Datacloud Congress in Monaco, where I had the opportunity to chair a session about the latest trends regarding dark fiber in Europe. The event is a must-go in the field of...
View ArticleStructural Remedies to Solve the Rural Broadband Issue
It would be an understatement to say that rural broadband policy in developed markets has largely been inadequate. The default program in many countries in Europe and elsewhere has been to hand in...
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Entering the IoT Market as a Broadband Operator
IoT (or Internet of Things) may seem like the buzzword of the year, but the fact is that even if the scope of IoT applications is only partly visible today, the technology is standardizing fast and...
View ArticleNo closer to a Digital Single Market
The Digital Single Market (DSM) has been hailed as one of the great tasks of the Juncker commission. As usual with the commission, the goals as expressed are lofty: Give consumers better access to...
View ArticleThe Things Network, the crowdsourced IoT lab
Yesterday I went to the second meet-up of The Things Network Paris. For those who don’t know it , The Things Network (TTN) is a community-driven and crowdsourced IoT network. Anybody can extend the...
View ArticleWhite Paper: Mapping Openness in the Android Ecosystem
When the European Commission launched its investigation into Google’s Android back in April, we discussed the ins and outs with various stakeholders and were surprised to find out how little decision...
View ArticleWhite Paper: Quels degrés de liberté dans l’écosystème Android
Lorsque la Commission Européenne a annoncé son enquête concernant le système Android de Google en Avril dernier, nous avions entamé des discussions avec différents interlocuteurs ayant un intérêt pour...
View ArticleSalvaging Google Fiber’s Achievements
In the wake of Google Access CEO Craig Barratt’s “goodbye Access” post on the Google Fiber blog yesterday, there are papers left, right and center predicting the end of Google Fiber. Barratt’s post...
View ArticleIs Comcast an unexpected IoT pioneer ?
Some weeks ago, Comcast announced machineQ™, a project aimed at developing IoT solutions for businesses, including connectivity AND an IoT platform. More precisely, Comcast is testing how it could take...
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Advertising the Fiber Experience
Advertising telecom offers is a challenging task, and even more so for innovative solutions : finding the right message to convince potential customers is tricky, especially since market maturity...
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FTTH Council Europe 2017: “Together, building a brighter future”
At first when I heard that the FTTH Council Europe was going to have its conference in Marseille, I couldn’t figure out why instead of going to a new country the Council was going to a smaller city in...
View ArticleARCEP investigates efficiency of FTTH mutualisation in dense areas
If you’ve been following the French telecom scene these last few days, you can’t have missed the turmoil that the regulator’s latest announcement led to. For those who missed it, the French telecom...
View ArticleHappy New Year, Bonne Année, 新年快乐
We at Diffraction Analysis are rarely early on our new year’s wishes. It’s in our french DNA to wait for the end of January (which conveniently brings us closer to celebrating the Chinese Year of the...
View ArticleIoT roaming is about much more than international coverage
With the Mobile World Congress starting today in Barcelona, the Internet of Things scene will certainly see a lot of announcements this week. And the Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) segment will definitely...
View ArticleIs Free about to launch 10Gb/s offers in France ?
Before we get into this, let me make one thing clear: this article is pure speculation. We have no insider information about this, neither have we talked to anyone inside Free about it. It’s very...
View ArticleFree va-t-il lancer des offres 10Gbps ?
For a version in English, click here. Avant de rentrer dans les détails, clarifions une chose : cet article est de la pure spéculation. Nous n’avons aucune fuite au sujet de ce que nous écrivons ici,...
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Has the Time for Fixed Wireless Finally Arrived?
For a long time in the early years of Fiber Deployment we kept hearing arguments that with mobile’s evolution path it was perhaps not necessary to deploy fiber to the home. One day, mobile would...
View ArticleWill IKEA disrupt the smart home market?
IKEA, a new player in a not-so-new market Searching for new sources of revenue is in the DNA of Internet service providers. One of the most explored areas –certainly thanks to the help of equipment...
View ArticleHuawei Analyst Summit 2017: it’s an All-Cloud world
Two weeks ago I attended Huawei’s 14th Global Analyst Summit in Shenzhen, a.k.a. ‘HAS 2017’. Over 500 industry/financial analysts and media representatives were there to hear the latest financial...
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