Fiber access issues as presented at eComm 2008, 13 March 2008.

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

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

3. US comparison…

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

5. Be careful what you ask for…

6. Local Right-of-Way is a bottleneck

7. 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

8. Cable bundles leading to one fiber per home

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

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

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