Reports and studies

Neutral fibre as a platform for innovation

WIK-Consult, 2023/2024

This study shows how the City of Stockholm, with its dark fibre utility company Stokab, has enabled the development of leading edge communication technologies as well as supporting the provision of high-tech applications in the field of audio-visual media, quantum computing and smart cities. Stockholm scores particularly high on the number of scientific publications, the number of patents and the number of SMEs introducing product innovations, innovative business processes, sales of new-to-market and new-to-firm innovations.

By establishing a neutral dark fibre network with a futureproof network design (point-to-point), and actively supporting innovation hubs and the development of smart city solutions, the City of Stockholm has provided a foundation for Stockholm to meet the EU Digital Decade targets and its position as a leading region in Europe for innovation.

Neutral fibre and the European Green Deal WIK-Consult

WIK-Consult, 2021

In this study, with the aid of interviews and case studies, we explore how Stockholm City’s fibre network, AB Stokab has helped Stockholm to become amongst the world’s greenest cities, and evaluate the environmental benefits that could be achieved across Europe if other communities follow Stockholm’s example.”

The role of wholesale only

WIK-Consult, 2018

In this report for Stokab we examine the role that wholesale only networks have played and are playing in boosting fibre deployment for public institutions, citizens and businesses across Europe; the views of infrastructure investors about the wholesale only business model; and the role wholesale only networks could play in the transition towards 5G, and its implications for future applications and services.

A tale of five cities

WIK-Consult, 2017

In this study, prepared for Stokab, we analyse the effects of different business models on deployment and competition in high speed broadband across five cities and assess the practical outcomes for consumers, in terms of quality, choice and price, as well as the implications for innovation and participation in the digital economy.

e-Health sevices

Provins, 2017

Healthcare providers and businesses describe the importance of dark fibre networks for meeting future health and social care needs

Innovation and broadband

Deloitte, 2017

Fibre infrastructure as the future-proof choice and its impact on innovation.

On behalf of Stokab, Deloitte has studied the links between a city’s fibre infrastructure and its innovation capacity in high-tech, ICT and the digital sector. The study covered six cities: Stockholm, London, Copenhagen, Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam

Smart Cities

Deloitte, 2017

Fibre infrastructure as the future-proof choice and its impact on innovation.

The report look at trends that affect the development of a smart city, the different market models - the operator model, the specialist model and the collaboration model - and its various characteristics and the effects and consequences that will be for each individual city.

Competition, innovation and growth

Provins, 2017

The report is based on interviews with a number of Stockholm-based companies in different industries that describe how access to fiber-based broadband affects their operations and the effects on the market where there is an operator-neutral player - like Stokab - that only operates at the wholesale level.

The corporate price of high- speed broadband

United Minds Samhällsanalys AB, 2016

– a comparative study between five European cities

The report compares the prices of different broadband speeds among suppliers in Stockholm, London, Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin.

Techno-economic analysis of fibre-based broadband technologies in Stockholm
FTTH vs. FTTB

Acreo, 2015

The study, which was carried out by Marco Forzati and Crister Mattsson at the research institute Acreo Swedish ICT on behalf of Stokab, gives property owners recommendations on how they should act concretely and what should be considered when choosing a network.

Development of High-speed Networks and the Role of Municipal Networks

OECD Science,Technology and Industry Policy Papers, Mölleryd B, 2015

This report gives further support for the notion that broadband speed matters and that high speed broadband networks generate positive benefits, contribute to economic growth, as well as to making firms more productive, based on an analysis of broadband, ICT and firm productivity in the United Kingdom and an econometric analysis of high speed broadband networks in Sweden.

Stokab Helps Build a Smarter Stockholm

Diffraction Analysis, Benoit Feldten, 2015

Stokab has been an example for many municipalities around the world and yet for most of the political decision makers, the story is still about delivering better broadband to citizens and businesses. This much revised version of the earlier analysis is about examining how Stokab is benefiting Stockholm itself, opening up opportunities for the city to tackle its future with foresight and intelligence.

Stokab – a socio-econimic analysis,
Summary

Acreo Swedish ICT, 2013

Stockholm’s Stokab:
A Blueprint for Ubiquitous Fiber Connectivity?

Diffraction Analysis, Benoit Feldten, 2012