Lately I’ve been touting the council-led Fibre To The Home (FTTH) project in Amsterdam as an example of how communities can build their own fibre networks. I wrote a couple of blogs about it last year.
So it was great to see in the NZ Herald today, this same project being described by Peter Griffin in the Connect section of the Business Pages*:
“As I walked through Amsterdam this week, the smell of dope in the winter air, I wasn’t paying much attention to the big trench running through the red brick footpath like a deep gash.”
Turns out Griffin wasn’t affected by the ‘Amsterdam atmosphere’, there really is a FTTH which will connect 420,000 citizens. And the business model is being copied on the continent and beyond. As Griffin concludes:
“Every big city in Europe is starting to follow the Amsterdam example. The old rules of telecoms infrastructure investment are being thrown out.”
* Last year I noted in this blog that the NZ Herald Connect section seemed headed for oblivion, but not so – it seems to have regained its place on page 4 pf the Business Section every Thursday, which is good News.