Singapore’s NBN uptake good, but challenges remain

Nucleus Connect CEO, David Storrie, provides a candid status report on Singapore’s NBN rollout. Interesting that following customer blogs is giving him the best and most honest assessment of how things are being perceived in the market. Things haven’t gone...

Turning copper into gold

My learned colleague from TelecomAsia, John Tanner, recently wrote about the growth of copper theft in the USA. Things must be bad there if crooks have resorted to pinching copper wires from fixed-line infrastructure as well as electrical substations, railroads, etc....

Cruisin' for a bruisin'

It’s been anything but smooth sailing for Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) but like the great ocean liners of years gone by, the A$43 billion behemoth keeps steaming forward through all weathers. It has managed to survive vigorous opposition...

Aussie NBN Co/Telstra deal struck (maybe)

Newspaper headlines in Australia proclaimed on Sunday that Telstra had signed a deal with NBN Co to transfer customers from its copper network onto the National Broadband Network’s fibre network and share Telstra’s infrastructure. Not surprisingly, a press...

Be afraid, be very afraid…

Imagine sitting in a rural health clinic, streaming three-dimensional medical imaging over the web and discussing a unique condition with a specialist in New York. Or downloading a high-definition, full-length feature film in less than five minutes. Or collaborating...