Is Broadband coming my way? ... screw TT&T's ADSL!

[New Petchburi Pete]

From: this month's issue of Cabling Installation and Maintenance Magazine.

 

FTTH Council formed to promote Broadband in Asia

 

A group of telecommunications, networking, infrastructure, and communications-related industry companies recently formed the Fiber-To-The-Home Council Asia-Pacific (www.ftthcouncilap.org). The group's mandate is to promote the extension of fiber access across the Asia-Pacific region including Greater China, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, India, and Australia/New Zealand.

 

The group is a non-profit organization with members representing all areas of broadband industries. "History will show that the creation of the FTTH Council Asia-Pacific marked the transition of telecommunications in our region, from the constraint of copper loops to the enormous capacity and rich services that are only possible on optical fiber-to-the-home networks," said Shoichi Hanatani, president of the FTTH Council Asia-Pacific. "We see the introduction of FTTH as a global phenomenon. Our new organization will maintain close working links with the existing FTTH Council organizations in North America and Europe."

 

According to Dittberner Associates, the worldwide capital expenditures related to FTTH access technology will reach US$22.8 billion in 2013, from an estimated $3.7 billion last year. The firm also predicts that the Asia-Pacific region will be the largest market for FTTH access technology with 52.8% of the total, or $12 billion.

 

Colin Goodwin, founding member of the board and broadband product manager with Ericsson, said, "FTTH access networks are a strategic infrastructure for a region, just as much as road and airports. Our studies show that regions equipped with true broadband Internet enjoy improved business performance and economic advantage."

 

The FTTH Council Asia-Pacific has established teams of members who will engage governments, regulators, carriers, and the telecommunications industry throughout the region so that the drive toward FTTH is understood and accelerated.

[Nervous_Dog]

based in Singapore I seem to remember with a number of competing organisations, who all want to make money by selling the fibre and services.

 

WAY to expensive for Thailand and most of the region.

 

DOG

[keekwai]

This sounds like it would be more practical for Thailand but considering who's in power any changes to telecommunications would be an uphill battle.

 

http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/15/technology/web_outlet/

 

To promote wider broadband access, the Federal Communications Commission Friday changed its rules to encourage the development of a new technology that provides access to high-speed broadband services using the nation's power grid, called access broadband over power line (BPL) systems.

 

"This new technology holds great promise as a low-cost broadband competitor. The pervasiveness of the utility grid means that almost every home in America can be accessed by this type of service," FCC Chairman Michael Powell and Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy said in a statement.

 

The costs of rolling out the new service should be relatively small, since the electrical grid is widespread, while the potential returns are high, commissioners said. Electric companies could offer a range of services......

[Nervous_Dog]

BPL has been around for 10 years in one way or another, I seriously doubt Thaksin would encourage it, as the companies that own the power lines are not part of the shin group.

 

DOG

[radioman]

BPL is also a bad solution in many ways and has already been dumped by a number of countries in europe. I remember reading a BBC white paper that in very nice BBCese said it basically screwed all their broadcast services big time.

 

Big fight going on in the US behind the scenes as well. None of the major radio orgs ARINC, NTIA etc seem to want it allowed, big political game.

 

Thailand is a hugely polluted environment already RF wise. Last things we need here is more crap.

 

Agree with DOG too, no way it will happen until the power company is privatised so Shin corp can buy it, or is that about to happen?

 

Cheers,

M.