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NSN/Ericsson/Huawei MoU raises serious questions over the need for OSS standardization

The announcement that OSS rivals NSN, Ericsson and Huawei have signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement to cross-license their respective OSS interfaces to one another raised a few questions as well as a few eyebrows in Nice this week.

Peter Dykes

Bleak budgetary outlook will show how much Australian government values the NBN

With a budget deficit of $19 billion now announced – and forecast budget revenues slumping by tens of billions of dollars – Australia’s politicians have some tough spending decisions to make – not least over the funding of the controversial $37.4 billion National Broadband Network (NBN). The real question now is whether politicians – Labor… Read more

Tony Brown

‘Salami effect’ can fill FTTH pipes, but operators might not reap rewards

It is one of the standard questions that Asia Pacific ultrafast broadband operators get asked: What on earth are you going to do with the huge bandwidth on these 1Gbps FTTH services? In the past few weeks, as I’ve attended Broadband World Forum Asia in Hong Kong and then traveled around the region talking to… Read more

Tony Brown