Mikael Sandberg is Chairman at VXFIBER, which was founded in 2014 as Ventura Next, by Swedish telecoms industry experts with global experience of building and managing open access network infrastructures – including FTTH – dating back to 1998. Until 2014, the shareholders owned Swedish open access network operator Zitius, managing 118 open access networks across Sweden, consisting of 46 council/municipal and 72 private networks. These networks now serve some 500,000 fibre-connected households and business. VXFIBER now has over 55,000 connected subscribers in Europe, UK, South Africa and the far East. It connects new users at a rate of 100-200 per day.
