> Telia, the former Swedish monopoly telephony company did a surprisingly good job at bringing ADSL to people, quite early. From my corner of Sweden, the priva

> Telia, the former Swedish monopoly telephony company did a surprisingly good job at bringing ADSL to people, quite early. From my corner of Sweden, the privatization of Telia was what helped us - Skanova (the company formed to hold all of Telia's old copper assets) was required to upgrade any phone switching station to ADSL as long as someone would pay for it, so there were a bunch of rural ISPs formed that would do the legwork to gather enough customers to pay for small switching stations to be upgraded that Telia deemed unprofitable.