TAIEX-REGIO

Study Visit on Implementing

Broadband Infrastructure
through Public-Private
Partnerships

organised in co-operation with

Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS)

6 - 9 November 2018
Venue:
Several venues indicated below

Stockholm, Uppsala, Gävle

Beneficiary:

Agency for Investments and Competitiveness (Croatia)

REGIO IND/STUD 67181

 Organised and funded by the
Technical Assistance and Information Exchange Instrument
of the European Commission

Aim of the Study Visit:

The aim of the Study Visit is twofold: firstly, to share the Swedish
experience on the implementation of broadband infrastructure projects
at national level and secondly, to focus on the use of public-private
partnership (PPP) model in implementing these projects.
As the PPP model is implemented at the local level only in Sweden, the
visit will include several meetings with local stakeholders.

Participants:
 Ms. Ljerka Golubić Bregant
Head of Division for education and International Cooperation
Sector for PPP
Agency for Investments and Competitiveness, Croatia
 Mr. Domagoj Dodig
Head of Division for Project Approval and Monitoring
Sector for PPP
Agency for Investments and Competitiveness, Croatia
 Day 1: Tuesday 6 November 2018
Venue: Stockholm, the office of the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS)
Valhallavägen 117 A (metro Stadion)

The participants can be met at the hotel by representative from PTS (Helene Källse,
PTS)
09:00-10:30 Welcoming and introduction
‒ Learning objectives and overview of the Agenda
‒ Participants Introductions & Expectations
‒ Introduction to broadband development in Croatia (Ljerka Golubić Bregant and
Domagoj Dodig)
‒ Introduction to PTS and national broadband strategy (Maria Sörman)
10:30-12:00 Market analysis
‒ About the broadband market
‒ The broadband mapping (how we collect data, what the data can tell, the level
of access to broadband and how the data is published)
‒ REBUS (how we follow up the goal in the national broadband strategy)
Speaker: Jens Ingman, Analyst PTS and Andreas Wigren, Analyst PTS
12:00-13:00 Lunch (at PTS)
13:00-13:45 Functional access to the Internet
Speaker: Anna Edberg Antonsson, Legal Adviser, PTS
13:45-14:45 The Swedish Broadband forum – meeting with representative from the
Broadband Council Administrative Office: Kristina Lindbom, Senior Adviser
‒ About the Swedish Broadband forum
‒ Regional co-operation
‒ Regional broadband coordinators
14:45 Coffee break
15:00-16:00 Broadband deployment in rural areas
Speaker: Maria Sörman, PTS
16:00 End of day 1
 Day 2: Wednesday 7 November 2018
Participants can be met at the hotel or other location by representative from PTS.
(Helene Källse, PTS), Representative/s from PTS will be participating the whole day.
Venue: Drottninggatan 94, Stockholm
9:00-11:30 Meeting with the Swedish Local Fibre Alliance (Svenska
(including stadsnätsföreningen)
coffee ‒ Fibre networks owned by municipal authorities and municipal companies
break) ‒ The concept Robust fiber; a concept developed by a large number of telecom
operators, Swedish Local Fibre Alliance, the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority
with several
Speaker: Mikael Ek, CEO and Jimmy Persson, Technical Product Manager,
Swedish Local Fibre Alliance https://www.ssnf.org/in-english/
11:30-13:00 Lunch in the city and walk to Stokab
Venue: Tulegatan 11, Stockholm
13:00-15:00 Meeting with Stokab – a municipal network owned by the Stockholm city
‒ Business model
‒ Public ownership
Veronica Thunholm, Deputy Executive Director and Per-Olof Gustafsson,
Senior Adviser, AB Stokab
15:00 End of day 2
 Day 3: Thursday 8 November 2018
Participants can be met at the hotel or other location by representative from PTS.
(Helene Källse, PTS) Representative/s from PTS will be participating the whole
day.
8:40 or 9:10 Train to Uppsala from Stockholm
Venue : IP-Only Head Office, Bäverns Gränd 17, Uppsala
10:00-11:45 PPP on regional level
(including Meeting with the regional broadband coordinator in Region Halland and
coffee break) company IP Only AB
Ellinore Svan, regional broadband coordinator, Region Halland
Jimmy Stigevall, Head of Strategic Business Development, IP-Only
11:45-13:00 Lunch in Uppsala and walk to train station
13:00 Train to Gävle from Uppsala, arriving 13:43 in Gävle
Venue: Hattmakargatan 6A , Gävle
14:00-15:45 Meeting with the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth
(including (Tillväxtverket)
coffee break) Broadband PPP-projects in regional fund
Speaker: Lena Johansson Skeri, Program Director and Anneli Norman,
Economic Adviser
Location:
16:17 Train to Stockholm from Gävle, arriving in Stockholm 17:38
 Day 4: Friday 9 November 2018
Venue: Stockholm, the office of the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS),
Valhallavägen 117 A (metro Stadion)

9:00-11:30 PPP – Telia Company and municipalities

(including Mikael Jarmdahl, Responsible for municipalities and municipality networks,
coffee Telia Company
break) Location: Telia Company, Stjärntorget 1, Solna
(Transportation will be organised by PTS)
11:30-13:00 Reflections and wrap-up (Maria Sörman, PTS)

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