The price $11 is probably the best market price they managed to find in Stockholn. It is not like you only need to pay $11 a month and you will get 100Mbps wher

The price $11 is probably the best market price they managed to find in Stockholn. It is not like you only need to pay $11 a month and you will get 100Mbps wherever you live in Stockholm. It is not socialism that gets you 100Mbps in Stockholm (but silly simpleton republicans: it is NOT NOT-socialism that gets it either). Sweden has always been ahead on telecom and we happen to think it is important. The municipal owned black-fibre company is http://www.stokab.se/ http://www.stokab.se/ For some sample prices: I currently pay 320 SEK for 10/10 Ethernet (my condo is 3 years old and is wired, but on a 5 year lock-in contract with the company that wired the condo). The cable company offers 8/24 for 319 SEK. No deal. A friend of mine gets 10/100 for 239 SEK, also ethernet. It is rental apt, they all have been wired by the owners to stay competitive / attractive. This is quite common. Another variant is that the power-company wires apartments with ethernet. A collegue has that and gets 10/10 at 195 SEK or 100/100 at 235 SEK. This is usually combined with freedom to select operator, who bundles various non-internet services over wires, such as digital-tv or phone (and as such they compete with price AND service bundle). If your house hasnt been ethernet wired you're stuck on ADSL or cable modems, and the price level is around 200-400 SEK (this is typically bundled with digital-tv and phone as well). Most of the end-user prices that are in par with the $11 from the article are lucky bastards. One collegue pays 89 SEK a month for 100/100 ethernet, which is less than $11 with current exchange rates. His condo owns the last-mile wiring and can chose the lowest-bidding operator to connect them to inet. In two years my condo's 5 year contract have expired, our last-mile wiring is ours to control, and I too hope to be in a similar sweet spot to chose the lowest bidder.