The City, realizing the need to take a pro-active position in this, started Stokab late 1993. During 1994 the company set a way to relate to all new entrants by leasing out fiber to everyone and trying to roll out synchronised with demand.
Building fiber networks is to a great extent a civil works activity. Most of the cost is digging up the streets to bury the ducts housing the cables. The cables themselves are a minor cost, irregardless if they have ten fibers or a hundred. Stokab could then be looked upon as a cost sharing mechanism between all operators in an area. Reality has proven it to be almost impossible to survive and develop a new stand alone cable plant as a new player with less than ten percent market share.
The presentation will expand on the roll-out, the governing mechanisms and Stokabs network of today.