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Publication: Light Reading
Date: 29th January 2003
Title: PacketFront Teams With Utilities

Utility company PiteEnergi is extending their areas of business and becomes a communication operator for true broadband services. With the help of PacketFront's intelligent broadband solution and local "community initiatives", home owners - even in the far outskirts of the area - will be given access to very cost effective telephony, TV and Internet services.

The network that PiteEnergi is building consists primarily of singlemode fibre to family home areas. The plan is to connect 4000 customers in four years. The network will also include the rural areas surrounding the city of Piteå - areas formerly considered non-lucrative in fibre broadband networks contexts. The secret of success contains of new and innovative business models and so-called "community initiatives". The model builds on PacketFront's solution, that enables an operator independent network, and on the agreement that PiteEnergi will dig and blow fibre to the villages' borders, and the villages themselves will bring the fibre the last mile out to the homes.

"We chose PacketFront's solution since their technology is purpose-built for true broadband networks and therefore gives us the ability to effectively handle many and differentiated services on a single infrastructure," says Sune Berg, Net Manager for PiteEnergi

PiteEnergi will not develop any services themselves. Instead, they will allow and encourage established service providers to deliver their services in the network.

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