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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Notes from the day job

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I know, I know. The neglect this blog suffers is bordering on criminal. I am pondering ways to remedy this, but in the meantime, here's ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Eye candy from Germany

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Fresh from the hand of my friendly postman comes this beauty from my long-time friends and sometimes consulting clients, Seim & Partner ...
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

God bless us, every one!

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Merry Christmas, dear reader. I hope the new year ahead holds untold wonders for you. I resolve, once again, to try to post more in 2014, as...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

My presentation last week in Budapest

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Last week I had the pleasure of presenting at a  conference  hosted in beautiful Budapest by the Hungarian national telecom regulator, NMHH....
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Monday, September 16, 2013

Much money wasted, you have

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I know Vodafone's got too much cash these days, but I think they missed a trick here. I can't count the number of times per day that...
Saturday, September 07, 2013

Misadventures in asset management

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This is a BT street cabinet on Townley Road, East Dulwich. It's been open at least five days. Luckily, it appears that the copper thi...
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Wednesday, September 04, 2013

Adventures in Cambodian overhead cabling

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Apologies, vestigial mega-uber value readers, for my ongoing lack of output. As usual, I'm involved in some very interesting stuff, whic...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

If you've got it, flaunt it

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Never fear, mega-uber value readers. It's not another lengthy diatribe, just a quick observation. Yesterday, while working at home on ...
Monday, April 01, 2013

Less diagnosis, more cure

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My previous post could easily be criticised as an example of diagnosis without any proposed remedy, the eternal curse of the analyst and se...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Misalignment

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One of the greatest sources of disappointment in life is our own unrealistic expectations. If you found yourself stuck at sea on a lifeboat ...
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Value perceptions

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To the discerning blog-watcher, it's a pretty much tried and true generalisation that when a long-dormant blog suddenly springs back to ...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Caveat emptor

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It seems an almost embarrassingly obvious joke to make, and so apologies if someone has beaten me to the punchline already, but it occurred ...
Monday, February 04, 2013

OTDR testing

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Does this thing still work?
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Monday, January 16, 2012

Surprise package

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I was very pleased to receive these via DHL last Friday - the first high fiber chocolates in history. Thanks to all the good folks at Diffra...
Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Misadventures in asset management

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A belated Happy New Year to whatever vestigial mega-uber value readers may remain out there. I hope 2012 brings you all you wish for, though...
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Friday, October 28, 2011

Nothing really matters, anyone can see, nothing really matters but FTTP

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That's an appalling musical reference, but sadly it's the only tie-in I can think of to announce that I will be presenting at the FT...
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Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Joining the Rainbow Revolution

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In a recent post, I alluded vaguely to my involvement in activities which aim to speed the delivery of fiber access in a couple of countries...
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Saturday, June 04, 2011

Bad telecom metaphors in religious propaganda, part 1

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From what I remember of my early years Sunday School experience, I think they really mean "upload," surely. But my burning questio...
Thursday, June 02, 2011

Jump

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In the age of the ubiquitous cameraphone, there is a lot of nonsense and noise, but sometimes even fairly mundane situations provide us with...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Fiber envy

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Hats off to friend and colleague Herman Wagter (and Dirk van der Woude, who makes a cameo appearance via video conference link) for this rec...
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Monday, May 23, 2011

Welcome to the gig time

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Enfant terrible HKBN's press release today heralding 10,000 users of its 1Gbps service started me riffing on "catchy" market...
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Wednesday, May 04, 2011

What ever happened to...?

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My friend and eComm founder, Lee Dryburgh, recently made a very brave post , in which he sought to explain the personal background to his r...
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Who said there ain't no free?

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On the off chance that you haven't seen this mentioned elsewhere, drop whatever it is you're doing and head over to the Diffraction ...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Wednesday wondering

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I know there are a lot of sell-side analysts, buy-side analysts, fund managers, industry analysts, consultants, IR and PR people who read th...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Tuesday trivia - Thomas Watson on the development of the telephone

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Reel 1 Reel 2
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Monday ramblings

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I've got plans for a couple of more substantive posts, but until those materialize, I may content myself with sporadic and short, quasi-...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

The United Colors of Diffraction Analysis

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If there's one thing of significance that I can point to about this humble bloglet, it's that, once upon a time, it was a relatively...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Monday morning levity

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I've posted both of these to Facebook previously, and no doubt some of you will have seen them before, but it's approaching 11:00 AM...
Sunday, January 09, 2011

7:35 of sanity on "Mad Money"

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I have followed the City Telecom story with a great deal of interest for many years, and have been fortunate to get to know NiQ Lai and to v...
Friday, December 31, 2010

The best is yet to come

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Or something like that. Happy New Year from EuroTelcoblog. See you in 2011, and yes, that includes you, persistent comment spammers!
Friday, December 10, 2010

All I want for Christmas is...

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After two years, I have now left the mCAPITAL project. I wish the team success with their imminent launch. As for next steps, I have a numbe...

Happy Holidays from EuroTelcoblog

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Thursday, December 09, 2010

BT Infinity, to the 'hood and beyond!

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While walking around my neighborhood in the past couple of days, I've seen signs that the good people of Greater Dulwich are heading for...
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Monday, November 29, 2010

Absence of Persuasive Incentive

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As I monitored the intermittent tweetstream from the Telco 2.0 event earlier this month in London, one exchange between attendees caught my ...
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Friday, November 05, 2010

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated

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Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream to the good old, bad old days. October 4, 2006 - day one of the first-ever Telco 2.0 event. ...
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