FTTH-enabled digital home care — A study of economic gains

Author

Forzati, Marco ; Mattsson, Crister

Author_Institution

Dept. for Networking & Transm, Acreo AB, Kista, Sweden

fYear

2014

fDate

6-10 July 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

We analyse the extent of the annual net cost reductions stemming from the introduction of four FTTH-enabled digital services for home care, as recently introduced in the Swedish city of Västerås. In total, between 2014 and 2020, it is projected that Sweden could save up to between €3 and €6 billion if such services were massively deployed today. The cost reductions are analysed for three different types of municipality. The article also shows that there is a significant cost reductions potential for a less extensive (and more realistic) deployment scenario with only 10% of users using digital services.

Keywords

cost reduction; economics; optical fibre subscriber loops; FTTH-enabled digital home care; FTTH-enabled digital services; Swedish city; Vasteras; annual net cost reductions; economic gains; municipality types; Broadband communication; Cities and towns; Investment; Market research; Optical fiber subscriber loops; Senior citizens; Sociology; FTTH; access networks; business models; digital home care; fiber; fibre; municipal networks; open networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2014 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Graz

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876352

Filename

6876352