April 17th, 2010
Posted by harrall
During the last six months or so, there’s been quite a bit of discussion in Norwegian media about the need for higher and higher broadband speeds and the use of fiber access networks in particluar. Telco pundits have made a number of different arguments, but the main ones are something like this:
* You’re never going to need more than 4 Mbit/s (or so) so there’s really no point in building fiber networks.
* You’re never going to need more than whatever LTE can offer because mobile networks are the future.
* You’re going to need more and more capacity so you might as well build fiber-based networks.
Well. It turns out there are quite a few areas in rural Norway that built fiber networks many years ago. So we went to talk to them. During January and February we conducted in-depth interviews with fiber operators, public officials and end users in six rural counties. Here’s what they told us:
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March 8th, 2010
Posted by harrall
In February we wrote about the Norwegian “satellite shadow network” where one billion kroner worth of network yielded 5 200 customers. A similar story has been uncovered in Sweden except the yield was one Swedish krona.
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February 23rd, 2010
Posted by hallvardb
Just a few days ago, the Norwegian FTTH operator Altibox announced the launch of a symmetrical 400 Mbit/s service. Can competitors with other access technologies follow up?
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February 17th, 2010
Posted by harrall
Having spent most of my life in Norway, I am used to high costs of goods and services. A beer in a bar? Easily 8 euros. A bus ticket? Normally 4 euros or so. And the same goes for the cost of broadband deployments. James Enck did a nice job in a recent paper where [...]
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January 17th, 2010
Posted by harrall
Hello! And welcome to the first posting at the Nordic Broadband Blog. Lots of interesting telecoms-related stuff happens in the Nordic countries, and the objective of this blog is to share some of it with people who do not speak any of the Nordic languages. My ambition is to write a [...]
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