Building Community Fiber

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Building Community Fiber Networks for High Speed
Telecom Access Anders Comstedt CEO, Stokab,
Sweden anders.comstedt_at_stokab.se


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Backbone Access
170 km

• 5 000 km cable
• 1.000 000 km of fibre
• Connecting 29 towns in
• the Stockholm area
• Not only a metro issue

Stokab
www.stokab.se
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• Getting a competitive market

Services
Infrastructure
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• Dividing up the value chain

Services
Infrastructure
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• How can anyone survive on 7-8 market share
  building your own cable infrastructure?
• You dont!

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• Where is the money?
• Who is willing to assume the risk?

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• Implementing the vision
• -A new division of responsibilities
• -Are telecom companies going to look the same?

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• From top-down to bottom-up?
• 3G to WiFi?
• Clusters of small operators?
• New entities taking the risk!

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• A more capable, open and neutral infrastructure
• Take average cable cost and churn out of the
  equation
• Locally!

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Fiber as least common denominator

• To the neighbourhood (FTTN)
• To a lt100-person node

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Backbone Access
170 km

• 5 000 km cable
• 1.000 000 km of fibre
• Connecting 29 towns in
• the Stockholm area
• Not only a metro issue

Stokab
www.stokab.se
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Fiber roll-out over time
No. of users/site
1997
1999
2001
1000- 100- 10- 1-
gt2 Mb/s
Distance from centre, Km
1 10 100
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A big undertaking

• 1 000 000 fiber km, also suburban/rural
• 150 000 000 USD investment
• 10 years
• Relation with 100 other players
• Creating trust

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Fibre to the block in the entire metro area
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Local politicians perspective on telecom
infrastructure
Mental focus
Time
Quick money on RoW