Own the Network A Radical Approach to Internet Connectivity Brough Turner, CTO, NMS Communications

Sweden 100 Mbps, $16/month Courtesy Lars Hedberg, The Swedish Urban Network Association Hammarbysjostad (Stockholm) Västerbotten (Northern Sweden)

US comparison…

But what to do? Telephony is not a “natural monopoly” — What about Internet connectivity? Regulation? Competition?

Be careful what you ask for…

Local Right-of-Way is a bottleneck

Using the right of way also has issues Photo by Dr. William T. Verts, http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~verts/things/things.html Swedish Urban Network Association

Cable bundles leading to one fiber per home

Community Association – Ulmea http://www.bjornerback.com/tomas/mattgrand/

Community Association – Ulmea 1 Gbps middle-km connection http://www.bjornerback.com/tomas/mattgrand/

Thank you ! Brough Turner [email_address] http://blogs.nmss.com/communications/

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