Fiber to the Home, FTTH

Fiber to the home broadband keeps on expanding in Asia

Broadband technologies as fiber to the home have experiences tremendous growth the last years. In anticipation of future growth and bandwidth capacity requirements operators like NTT in Japan have invested large amounts in their networks. Growth in the Asean countries varies quite a lot by country. For instance Hong Kong has been an early adaptor [...]

Hard times for telecom equipment manufacturers…

During the last weeks many telecom equipment providers have announced their Q1-2009 earnings. And it did not look that good. Perhaps some of us thought that when Verizon and AT&T  announced their very reasonable Q1 figures (both for wireless and wireline like FTTH), the telecom equipment manufacturs must be doing ok as well. Nothing is [...]