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> That is also how Stockholm built out its fiber network. Stokab also had various mandates to connect or cooperate with schools, government, student housing, p
by njepa 8y ago
> That is also how Stockholm built out its fiber network.
Stokab also had various mandates to connect or cooperate with schools, government, student housing, public(ly owned) housing and other entities. You would often get fiber in the equivalent "the projects" before someone in an affluent co-op. Without this I am not sure how well the approach would have worked.
- rayiner 8y agoConnecting a few government-owned buildings is a far cry from requirements in the US, where typically every area above a very low population threshold must be connected.
- njepa 8y agoI wasn't a few government-owned building so much as 25% of the housing stock, around a hundred thousand apartments, which were actually owned by the city at the time. (And that is just the publicly owned housing). As far as I know it wasn't subsidized as such, but paid for by profit from rents and rent increases (these are essentially rent controlled apartments).