Socio-economic effects of FTTH/FTTX in Sweden

Author

Forzati, Marco ; Mattsson, Crister

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2012

fDate

2-5 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coventry

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2228-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254453

Filename

6254453