"The state must open fiber networks" - Computer Sweden

The report, presented by Jonas Malmlund at Deloitte far right, received positive feedback from the mini panel with Björn Rosengren, advisor to MTG and Maria Pour, director of the university network Sunet. Maria Pour also called for a strategy for all fiber all the way to the city networks at the local level in a next step.

Authorities and Regions, SALAR, blowing up a debate around how to deal with the state fiber infrastructure which today is spread out and handled by different authorities and agencies – Transport Administration, Waterfall, Teracom, the Swedish Armed Forces, Swedish Kraftnät and MSB. Some are also managed by Triangle company jointly owned by Vattenfall, the Swedish power network, Fortum and Tele2 and also in TeliaSonera’s government partly as a minority shareholder.

class=”paragraphIntro”> In a new report by the consultancy firm Deloitte made at the Association’s mission states that the current structure is ineffective. The report submitted by the end of the week was presented at a breakfast seminar on SKL on Wednesday.

class=”paragraphIntro”> Unlike other infrastructure such as railways and roads, there is no agency that has overall responsibility for the fiber network, said Jan Soderstrom, Acting Division Chief at SKL as currently working with infrastructure issues.

class=”paragraphIntro”> – We have seen that there is a problem getting to the real competition with a separated infrastructure ownership and asked Deloitte to look at whether the same principle should apply to fiber and broadband as for other infrastructure, he says.
The report is also a rush into a situation where even the government has the issue up. Ministry works best with directives for an upcoming investigation into how the state fiber should be handled.

class=”paragraphIntro”> – We estimate that around 80-90 percent of all terrestrial fiber in Sweden are in public, says Jonas Malmlund, partner at Deloitte.

class=”paragraphIntro”> – It’s important to keep that in mind for it requires pretty good strategies for how to act and how products and services are delivered to the market.

class=”paragraphIntro”> He points to a number of problems with the current fragmented model. Above all, it is about the handling of fiber is a secondary task for the authorities concerned and that in many cases they are trying to sell their services higher up the value chain and thus partially compete with their customers.

class=”paragraphIntro”> – The demanded broad black fiber that is open and carrier-neutral. But it’s the tight resource today – there are not many that offer dark fiber. This means that the threshold is set to be higher for new entrants and a competitive inhibitory effect, says Jonas Malmlund.

class=”paragraphIntro”> He emphasizes the importance to a new state operator is not moving up the chain but just stick to selling dark fiber market conditions.
government writes in the Budget that the upcoming commission’s proposals will be aimed at streamlining and do not imply overall increased costs for the state. But it would not cost anything at all is Jonas Malmlund skeptical.

class=”paragraphIntro”> – It’s a chimera that it would not cost anything – switching costs and some investment will probably guarantee.
Björn Rosengren, former Social Democratic Minister for Enterprise, which is now an advisor to MTG, was among those who attended the seminar, and he welcomed the report.

class=”paragraphIntro”> – I think it is important to ensure fiber infrastructure it is and deal with it the same way as roads and railways. But that approach is not at the political level.