Title :
Socio-economic effects of FTTH/FTTX in Sweden
Author :
Forzati, Marco ; Mattsson, Crister
Author_Institution :
Dept. for Networking & Transm., Acreo AB, Kista, Sweden
Abstract :
In this paper we present some recent work we performed on the socio-economic impact of fibre access networks (FTTH/FTTx). We summarise some results from a pre-study on the effects of fibre deployments in Sweden. Specifically, we list and quantify savings in data and telecommunications costs for Swedish local governments, estimate the added values for fibre-connected citizens, and present a multivariate regression analysis of the early impact on employment and population evolution, building on data from 290 municipalities between 2007 and 2010: we find a weak but statistically significant correlation, and we are able to exclude backward causality.
Keywords :
employment; optical fibre subscriber loops; regression analysis; socio-economic effects; FTTH-FTTX; Sweden; Swedish local governments; data cost; employment; fibre access networks; fibre deployments; fibre-connected citizens; multivariate regression analysis; population evolution; socio-economic effects; telecommunication cost; Biological system modeling; Correlation; Economics; Employment; Equations; Mathematical model; Multivariate regression; FTTH; employment; fiber; fibre; municipality networks; next generation access (NGA); open access networks; population; regression analysis; socio-economics;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Coventry
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2228-7
Electronic_ISBN :
2161-2056
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254453
