18 maj 2009 12:18

Stockholm utsett till Intelligent Community of the year

Stockholm har utsetts till Intelligent Community of the year av Intelligent Community Forum, som i tio års tid har belönat årets mest framstående stad inom bredbandsteknik och vision. Tre viktiga faktorer till att Stockholm tog hem priset i år är Stokabs öppna fibernät, Kista Science Citys arbete och Stockholms stads satsning på e-tjänster.

Så här lyder juryns motivering:
"The city-owned company Stokab started in 1994 to build a fiber-optic network throughout the municipality as a level playing field for all operators. Stokab dug up the streets once to install conduit and run fiber, closed them up, and began offering dark fiber capacity to carriers for less than it would cost them to install it themselves. Today, the 1.2 million kilometer (720,000-mile) network has more than 90 operators and 450 enterprises as primary customers and is now in the final year of a three-year project to bring fiber to 100 % of public housing, which is expected to add 95,000 households to the network. Stockholm's Mayor has set a goal of connecting 90 % of all households to fiber by 2012."