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Svenska Stadsnätsföreningen Swedish Urban Network Association www.ssnf.org FIBRE STRATEGY IN SWEDEN Mikael Ek Managing Director [email protected]
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FIBRE STRATEGY IN SWEDEN
Mikael Ek Managing Director
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Swedish Urban Network Association
• A non profit organization • Started 1998 and have 274 members • Running system for fibre business, SLA and quality • Projects running with the Regulatory Authorities • Development projects • Broadband conferences and education • Member in the Government broadband forum
with the vision to create an open ICT-infrastructure which contributes to a sustainable development of the society
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WHY SO HIGH FIBRE
PENETRATION IN SWEDEN?
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1995
2000
2005
2010
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The Swedish IT story
• State subsidy for residential PC –mid 90th • Need for infrastructure in the Municipals –mid 90th • Expansion towards the market – earning trust – late 90th • Broadband-boom - demand from the households – early 00th • State subsidy boosted infrastructure expansions – early 00Th • Making the urban networks open infrastructure accessible – mid 00th
• Demand for higher bandwidth increases heavily – late 00th • The households more and more asking for fibre – late 00th • The Government decide a broadband goal for Sweden – late 00th
OECD Fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, by technology, June 2011
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Why fibre?
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10 20 30 40 50 60
100-1000>
km
Upload
Download
xDSL
Mbit/s
The need of capacity will increase 50 % per year.
Source: CISCO
Fiber
Broadband Strategy for Sweden : 90% of all households and businesses should have access to broadband at a minimum speed of 100 Mbps in 2020. The overall objective for Sweden is to have a world-class broadband.
More than 30% have access to fibre today Common comprehension in the need to reach 75%
“THE SWEDISH MODEL”
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Sweden 9,5 miljon
Europe and Sweden
Sahara
Population density Europe
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The alternative urban networks in Sweden
• Competitor to TeliaSonera (former incumbent) • Almost 50% of the fibre access network
in Sweden is ran by the urban networks • 85% of the Urban Networks owned by the
municipals Main customers: • Operators hire dark fibre or capacity
– for connections towards households and companies to offer broadband with high speed internet and TV.
• Mobile operators hire dark fibre – to connect their mobile sites to be able to offer
mobile broadband
• Real estate owners
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Västerbotten – the north part of Sweden
• Inhabitants: 256 000
• Area: 59194 km2 (1/8 of Sweden)
2x Holland ( 16 Milj)
• 80% have FTTH
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300 Village Networks Networks built by the citizens
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1,25 mijon fibre km 5.500 Cable km
600 Nodes 15 000 Sites
Stokab – in Stockholm One of the world largest metro net
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DIFFERENT BUSINESS MODELS
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The value chain - divided into five levels
Traditional incumbent
business model versus
Competition in a customer service perspective
Open networks
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Natural resources
Infrastructure
Transmission
IP/Internet
content and services
Source of the picture: PTS
Several operators in an Open Network!
Internet TV
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Telephony
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THE MARKET VS PUBLIC SECTOR
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Existing services from the Public Sector
• E-services • Medical services:
– Online doctor – Support to newborn child – Physiotherapy – Training coach on distance – Home language training
• Simplifying for private individuals
• Simplifying businesses administration
• Saving costs for administration and others
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Market vs Society
• Statement: 50% of the usage in coming 15 years will be between citizens and Society
• Utopia? No, think about
– few had knowledge about Internet 15 years ago – few used av mobile phone for 20 years ago – what will happen next coming 15 years?
• Our kids are growing up with Internet and computers
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At 3 years age they are frequently surfing! They set total new demands and will ask for digital services!
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Recommendations
• The Community have to have the initiative and responsibility to secure NGN infrastructure local or in the region
• The Government need to point out the overall direction
• Involve the younger citizens
• Include citizens that are “outside” computing
