With the recent interest in FTTH, WBA and regulatory strategies to achiveve growth, I thought it would be a good time to blog about the results that countries and places outside of Brunei have had with deploying FTTH networks.

Stockholm case study

Stockholm’s 100mbps municipal FTTH for $11 per month. And that’s in both directions – upload at 100mbps / download at 100mbps.

In a Swedish city – $30-$40 per month buys you a 20mbps connection. And in the US, expect to pay some $145 per month for a Verizon connection.

See the connection? You don’t have to go far to find more support for this model – OECD endorses this kind of model where the government funds the investment in infrastructure, and let the private sector do what it does best – which is innovate, develop innovative services and compete for the end-user’s dollars.

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