HSB, Riksbyggen and the Swedish urban network association

Since 1999 I have believed in and worked towards the change to open networks in several local housing societies. Today I have an operator called T3, and have both short response time and amazing bitrate ;).

The problem is often that the operator who owns the switches has bound all members to them in many ways for instance different services together with a contract for the whole housing society (often five years or more) that makes a change really difficult (many people don't want to change operator), but in a wider perspective it's of course a huge thing for both members, the open competition, and the market in whole.

I actually have published a few letters in a couple of newspapers about this, talked to a really great guy who for instance started the very popular computer netyork RydNet that was widely used by a huge amount of students (it was ended almost ten years after the first apartments where connected because it was out of date) from all over the world, and today (the broadband company changed there policy for three or four years ago and is today also used by a open network in Linkqping and ?) even more private apartments (14 000) in the same city, worked with this in a couple of housing societies (I was elected to work in the IT committee (läs: IT-kommitté)) and did so for several years, and talked about this really important thing in a lecture hall for a lot of people (many of them where studying entrepreneurship at a really interesting KY-utbildning).

Hopefully this will be a reality everywhere in the world, like when Telia (read: the xDSL market before this date) took a huge step towards more possibilities and open competition because one student ordered both a phone number and broadband at the same time, and directly canceled the phone number. This made the impossible possible, in other words to have only broadband without any connected phone number, and furthermore to actually choose all of your services.

HSB, Riksbyggen and the Swedish urban network association.