Swedish report calls for openness and competition at all network levels

The Swedish Telecoms Regulator has issued a 150 page report (in Swedish) on open networks and services with a two page abstract in English.

The report focuses on the importance of open, competitive markets and networks at five levels:

1. Natural resources (use of and access to land, ducts and spectrum)
2. Infrastructure (passive cables and masts)
3. Transmission (equipment for transportation of bit-streams)
4. IP/Internet (equipment for traffic direction and IP addressing)
5. Content and services (content, services and end user equipment)

This multi-level approach sounds like that presented by Brough Turner, and it has worked well in Stockholm and throughout Sweden, as shown by their high rank on Internet-related indices:

Index	Rater	Rank
Broadband Performance Index	European Community Commission	1
E-readiness rankings	Economist Intelligence Unit	2
Networked Readiness Index	World Economic Forum	2
Broadband Quality Score	Said Business School	4