BROADBAND IN REMOTE AREAS IN VRMLAND, SWEDEN

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BROADBAND IN REMOTE AREAS IN VÄRMLAND, SWEDEN
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BROADBAND IN REMOTE AREAS IN VÄRMLAND, SWEDEN
1 VÄRMLAND in brief 2 Broadband in Sweden
3 Broadband in Sweden 4 Projects with
Broadband as main topic 5. CONCLUSIONS
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FACTS ABOUT VÄRMLAND
VÄRMLAND in the heart of Northern Europe Size
19,371 km2 Population 273,500 County town
Karlstad, 80,000 inhabitants 16 Municipalities

• LOCATION COMMUNICATION
• Alongside the Norwegian border
• Lake Vänern with ports accessing the North Sea
• 3 Airports
• Railway with high-speed trains
• Less than three hours by train or car to
• Stockholm (300 km) Gothenburg (250 km)
• Oslo (200 km)

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TRADE INDUSTRY

• MAIN INDUSTRIES
• Paper and Pulp
• - Unique concentration of international forest
  industries
• - Packaging
• - 12,000 employees
• Steel and engineering
• - Significant export industry
• - 11,000 employees
• - E.g. tool steel, buses and propellers
• Food
• Tourism
• - EUR 22,500 M in turnover every year

• SPECIFIC BUSINESSES
• Uddeholm Tooling
• Stora Enso
• Billerud
• Bergvik Mall
• Kvaerner Pulping
• Metso
• Moelven
• Volvo Wheel Loaders
• Rolls Royce
• Barilla / Wasa Bröd
• Klässbol Linen Mill

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IT BROADBAND IN SWEDEN
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• A well developed IT infrastructure can help
  provide equal conditions for business and
  everyday life.
• - "Sweden must be a sustainable information
  society for all
• To define the main goal more precisely, there
  are three subgoals
• - IT must contribute to a better quality of life
  and help improve and simplify everyday life for
  people and companies
• - IT must be used to promote sustainable growth
• - An effective and secure physical
  infrastructure for IT, with high transmission
  capacity, must be available in all parts of the
  country so as to give people access to, among
  other things, interactive public e-services.

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Canalisation programme 2008-09

• National support with 7,5 MEuro/year for
  improving IT infrastructure
• Only to rural and remote areas and 50 co
  financing
• The area for support is not competitive for a
  normal service provider
• The Canal or net must be open for more than one
  service provider

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Canalisation programme 2008-09

• Typical receivers of support
• Companies delivering electricity
• Road authorities
• Associations, NGOs for private house areas

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Ministry for Infrastructure2009-11-03

• Year 2020 90 of all housholds shall have
  acces to broadband with the speed of
  100Mbit/second
• The service providers shall deliver the same
  speed for both out- and incoming data
• 93 of all sweds have acces to some kind of
  internet

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IT Commisioner Mrs Reding2009-10-28

• EU will be funding research projects with 300
  MEuro year 2011-2013
• Internet traffic in EU increasing with 60 every
  year to avoid bottle necks a new Innovation
  strategy will come 2010

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IT BROADBAND IN VÄRMLAND

• Two long-term objectives for broadband access
  and e-services in Värmland were set in 2006
• - 100 coverage (achieved by the end of 2007
  with the mobile network technology CDMA450)
• - All inhabitants have access to the same
  e-services at the same price ???
• Developed broadband throughout the region
• FIBRE A connection of fibre between all
  municipalities
• WIRE-LESS Point to point connections
• xDSL Almost 90 of the inhabitants have access
  to ADSL (0,5 - 24 Mbit/s)
• CDMA 450 100 Coverage all over Värmland (0,5 -
  3 Mbit/s)

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CDMA450 LOW FREQUENCY RADIO BASED BROADBAND
SOLUTION FOR VÄRMLAND
Region Värmland decided in 2006 that Nordisk
Mobiltelefon are to supply broadband internet
access using the CDMA450 mobile network
technology. - CDMA450 network is based on the
American 3G technology CDMA2000 and combined with
the low frequency, 450 MHz - CDMA450 provides
superior coverage in large rural areas - Allows
people to bring their data modems to both summer
houses and travelling
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BALTIC RURAL BROADBAND PROJECT

• - Operated by subsidy from Interreg III B Baltic
  Sea
• - Aim was to support the extension of broadband
  access and internet use in rural areas as
  instruments of regional development
• - Main objective was to identify and implement
  cheap and reliable technical solutions in order
  to create a consumer friendly and effective
  high-speed internet access in rural areas
• Regional project partners Värmland
• County Administrative Board of Värmland
• Torsby Municipality (Pilot Activity
  Långberget)
• Wermland Chamber of Commerce (Pilot Activity
  Meetingpoint Wermland)

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TORSBY MUNICIPALITY

• - A rural municipality in the northern part of
  Värmland with some 13,500 inhabitants
• - With an area of 4187 km² there are 3,33
  inhabitants per km²
• - The majority of the inhabitants are
  concentrated to the city of Torsby, which is the
  population centre. If one should exclude the
  inhabitants in the municipality centre the number
  of inhabitants per km² would decrease to less
  than 1,0 inhabitants per km²
• - Tourism is important to Torsbys future
  development

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LÅNGBERGET RESORT TORSBY MUNICIPALITY

• Långberget is a tourist resort in the northern
  part of Torsby municipality
• - famous for its unspoiled wilderness
• - perfect cross country ski tracks
• - hiking trails, from 2-70 km
• - 100 creeks, rivers and lakes to fish in
• - hotel with 115 beds
• - 45 cottages, 2 apartments in each
• - youth hostel with 48 beds
• - caravan pitch with 29 pitches for caravans

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LÅNGBERGET TORSBY MUNICIPALITY

• The aim of the pilot activity Långberget
• Supply the resorts hotel access to broadband
  for administration, booking system, homepage etc.
  
• Offer broadband access as a service to the hotel
  guests, the tourists who rent a cottage, as well
  as for the few permanent living
• Advantages
• Broadband is crucial to promoting growth in rural
  areas since it gives local businesses a
  possibility to offer their services over the
  Internet
• Visitors can combine vacation and business

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LÅNGBERGET TECHNICAL SOLUTION
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MEETINGPOINT WERMLAND WERMLAND CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE

• The aim of the pilot activity Meetingpoint
  Wermland
• increase knowledge of e-commerce
• stimulate as well as promote e-commerce
  development in the region
• Currently Meetingpoint Wermland has more than 100
  suppliers that regularly send electronic invoices
  to 12 municipalities and to the County Council in
  Värmland
• The work invested in Meetingpoint Wermland has
  been extremely successful and the project has
  been noted both nationally and internationally
  for its positive yield.

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THE PORTAL MEETINGPOINT WERMLAND
The portal Meetingpoint Wermland - A digital
toolbox filled with services for sending and
receiving electronic invoices, where companies
and municipalities can operate e-commerce.
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MEETINGPOINT WERMLAND WERMLAND CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE

• Advantages
• Meetingpoint Wermlands services make
  e-commerce
• - Cheaper
• - Simpler
• - More efficient

• Main Impact
• The main impact of the project Meetingpoint
  Wermland is that the project will
• - Increase IT skills and e-strategies
• - Make SMEs understand the advantages of
  e-business and help them identify e-business
  opportunities
• - Assist SMEs in implementing a transformation
  towards e-business
• - A link between customers and their suppliers
• - Provide a regional resource to generate
  electronic invoices

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On going acctivities

• Broadband Infrastructure
• - Increased coverage by IT infrastructure with
  high transmission capacity in Värmland
• - New broadband definition from the government -
  minimum 2 Mbit/s, symmetric (upgradable to higher
  speeds).
• - The state should take overall responsibility
  to ensure that broadband is expanded in all parts
  of the country
• e-Services
• - e-Collaboration A joint choice of e-services
  for all municipalities in Värmland - Co-operation
  on IT based services between all municipalities
  in the county.
• - e-Government accessibility on citizens terms
• - e-Learning flexible education that meets the
  individuals interests and needs, and the demands
  of working life
• - e-Solutions for Business Värmland is to be at
  the forefront of e-Commerce
• - e-Health A co-ordinated health portal for the
  county, where citizens can see his/her own health
  care information.

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E-CLIC IRIV B NSR

• E-CLIC (European Collaborative Innovation
  Centres for broadband media services)
• - A result of a successful collaboration in the
  Interreg IIIB project BIRD (Broadband Access for
  Innovation and Regional Development)
• - E-CLIC is an initiative of supporting
  innovation, development and provisioning of
  innovative broadband services.
• The overall aim of E-CLIC is to stimulate
  innovation through the establishment of eight new
  European collaborative innovation centres for
  broadband media services, and to develop the
  capacity for growth and employment across the NSR
  through collaboration in a North Sea cluster.

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CONCLUSIONS

• IT Broadband in Värmland
• - In areas with a high density of population
  broadband access will continue to be developed by
  the market, but in remote areas it still will be
  a question of who is going to pay for it
• - CDMA 450 shows that it is possible to cover an
  entire region with extremely difficult nature,
  forests and mountains, in a rural area, with
  wireless broadband
• - CDMA450 should be seen as a complement to
  fibre
• Baltic Rural Broadband project
• - Värmlands participation in the Interreg
  project Baltic Rural Broadband has been very
  successful
• - The Långberget project shows that it is
  possible to reach out with high capacity
  broadband to small remote villages in the
  mountains to a reasonable price
• - The Värmland Chamber of Commerce will continue
  developing Meetingpoint Wermland
• The future
• - A new period of state grants for broadband
  infrastructure will increase the coverage of
  fibre in the county (The Canalisation programme)
• - The E-CLIC, a direct result of our
  participation in the Interreg North Sea project
  BIRD, will hopefully bring new innovative
  e-services to Värmland and a project under
  elaboration called E-CLIC Baltic will be
  submitted spring 2010.