[pp.int.general] Broadband rollout in Sweden continues

[Reinier Bakels]

> News today; the major building contractors in Sweden have joined forces
> to ensure that practically all of Stockholm's apartments have 1 Gbit
> connections to every room by 2010.
>
How is this organised? Afaik the installation of fiber is a typical "tragedy 
of the commons" economic problem: with todays privatised communication 
companies a lot of commercial parties will benefit, but none of them 
individually sufficiently to justify the glass fiber investment.
I recall some (city) government-driven glass fiber experiments in certain 
(new) quarters of Amsterdam a long time ago, but that became a failure due 
to a lack of applications (it was even before Internet really took off). So 
the conclusion was: government should stay out of such endeavours! In NL we 
only have ADSL, with some 20 Mb (nominal!) maximum speed, but it is 
expensive.

Personally I am satisfied with 1Mbit downstream, but the quality of 
television broadcasts is poor (though OK for talkshows where the image is of 
less importance).

reinier