Why Is Connectivity So Cheap In Stockholm? 443
lpress writes "Symmetric, 100 Mbps service in Stockholm, costs $11/month. Conditions in every city are different, but part of the explanation for the low cost is that the city owns a municipal fiber network reaching every block. They lease network access to anyone who would like to offer service. The ISPs, including incumbent telephone and cable companies, compete on an equal footing."
Some crazy conspiracy? (Score:4, Funny)
Why Is Connectivity So Cheap In Stockholm? (Score:5, Funny)
The Pirate Bay, of course!
Re:More like 80/20 (Score:3, Funny)
I could live with that too instead of 8Mbps/448Kbps I have here. Sweden has beautiful women and superfast porn pipes - truly it is paradise on earth.
Re:Oh noes, they paid taxes! (Score:3, Funny)
And they got something for it in return, fuck Rand-bots and that bathtub drowning retard (what's his face again?)
Tubgirl?
Re:Some crazy conspiracy? (Score:1, Funny)
hehehe, you don't live in the USA, don't you?
I wish I had a 4-6MB/s cheap service in the USA...
Besides, you got all those hot blond girls everywhere, and they are educated to have a free sexual life, affirmative action by the women, so they ask you out to have an one night stand...
Damn Sweden is the paradise...
Re:Fiber in gas pipes? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Some crazy conspiracy? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Some crazy conspiracy? (Score:5, Funny)
I spent 8 months in Stockholm on a fellowship years ago (before we were married, honey!) and I've got to say, it was pretty close to paradise for a single young American. I was surprised to find that every single girl I met carried her own condoms. No "abstinence-only" education over there.
Re:Some crazy conspiracy? (Score:2, Funny)