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Metro-land Reborn? Iskandar Malaysia’s Smart City

Metro-land: For Londoners, it’s a swathe of leafy commuter suburbs built alongside the Metropolitan Railway in the early 20th century. Marketed as an escape from cramped urban life, Metro-land even inspired poems from poet laureate John Betjeman: And, with the morning villas sliding by, They felt so sure on their electric trip That Youth and… Read more

Camille Mendler

Questioning the unquestionable: Is fiber-to-the-home really the future of broadband?

So, everyone’s agreed: broadband operators will eventually replace their decades-old copper networks with superfast fiber all the way to the home. That, at least was the consensus of some speakers on stage at last week’s Fiber-to-the-x (FTTx) and Next-Generation Access (NGA) Summit in Berlin, Germany. But talk from operators and vendors on the show floor… Read more

Rob Gallagher