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Benoît FELTEN
Paris, France
CEO of Diffraction Analysis, NGA Expert, Music and Photography Enthusiast, Occasional Roleplayer, Married and Father of Two
Interests: web 2.0, jazz, harmonica, telecoms, progressive rock, role-playing games, photography, fiber to the home
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AT&T was good at seeing the future, not at executing on it...
Posted Jun 19, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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Wireline QoE degradation: further explanations (maybe) ?
Last week I posted on the sharp dip in Akamai's average speed data in many countries in the world in the last quarter or two quarters. The piece has gotten some attention and a few responses were sent out to... Continue reading
Posted Jun 5, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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Fastweb was a precursor in IPTV. Will they be a precursor in abandoning it?
Posted Jun 4, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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Akamai's data suggests wireline broadband quality of experience may be degrading...
Posted May 31, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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The (Slow) Fiber Revolution: My speech at Freedom to Connect
Freedom to Connect is a unique event in technology. The speakers there are just not the usual bunch of speakers, a mix of long-term visionaries and disruptive entrepreneurs. I felt a little pedestrian myself amongst that crowd, but I console... Continue reading
Posted May 24, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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Diffraction Analysis NGA Workshop in Bogota
In two weeks time on June 1st, my excellent ex-colleague Wally Swain and I will be running a one-day workshop on NGA business models in Bogota, Colombia, on the backend of the ACIEM Telecom Conference. The purpose of the workshop... Continue reading
Posted May 19, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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Quintarelli at AGCOM ?
Posted May 14, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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Free Webinar: Successful FTTH Service Strategies on May 15th
In late 2011, Diffraction Analysis undertook a study of 13 FTTH operators for the FTTH Council Europe to determine optimal approaches to service strategies. The results were presented at the FTTH Council Europe Conference in Munich in February. Next week,... Continue reading
Posted May 9, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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Live tweeting from the FTTH Council APAC Conference
To my surprise and delight, twitter is working from China (or maybe only from the Shanghai Pudong Shangri-La?) That means I can (and will) live tweet from the event. Since there's no official hashtag that I know of, I'll be... Continue reading
Posted May 8, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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Off to Shanghai for FTTH Council Conference
This morning I'm flying out to Shanghai for the FTTH Council Asia Pacific conference. I will be speaking there, presenting preliminary results from a paper entitled "Measuring the Impact of 200µ fiber designs on FTTH deployment costs in China". If... Continue reading
Posted May 7, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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More details on the B4RN FTTH model
Despite its naff title 'The Villagers Digging for Victory', this article in the Telegraph is actually pretty good and contributes a fair amount of detail on the financial model of B4RN, the community rural project in the UK that I... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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FTTH is (relatively) cheap!
In case you missed it, here's an opinion piece I posted on the Diffraction Analysis blog last week, about the relative cost of FTTH and why it's (in my opinion) generally not apprehended in the right way. It's called FTTH... Continue reading
Posted Apr 23, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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Now THAT's a good catch-up TV advert...
For the last year or so I've examined or analyzed a lot of broadband and related services adverts for a report we're planning to publish this year. Some concepts are better presented than others, but catch-up TV isn't always put... Continue reading
Posted Apr 18, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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Reading too much from the Google Fiber blog?
Posted Apr 6, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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The Importance of B4RN
It would be easy to dismiss the B4RN initiative in the UK as such a small scale approach that it is meaningless, and that's no doubt what the lobbyists who try to shape policy and regulation in the UK are... Continue reading
Posted Apr 3, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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FTTH 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 his tenure. Chris'... Continue reading
Posted Mar 30, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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Another setback for Huawei
Posted Mar 26, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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World of Fiber 2012 is out!
A quick note to let you know that our annual free report on the state of FTTP deployments around the world is out: you can get it here! Here's the blurb in case you don't know what I'm talking about:... Continue reading
Posted Mar 22, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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The Accelerating Stall of the French FTTH Deployment
Posted Mar 21, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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Online Service Providers Discover the Real World
I've been meaning to write about this for a while. The coverage of a number of recent legal "happenings" around online service providers has puzzled me and I wanted to weigh in on perhaps an opposite direction. In the connectivity... Continue reading
Posted Mar 13, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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Here Be Fiber
Posted Mar 12, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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F2C, the must-attend telecom policy conference
Posted Mar 2, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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FTTH Council Europe Conference Take-Aways
Posted Feb 29, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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Punitive charges for rights of way threaten Indian broadband expansion
Posted Jan 25, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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Google 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 2012, and that's clearly not... Continue reading
Posted Jan 24, 2012 at Fiberevolution
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