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0 pointsrayiner8y ago0 comments

About 30% of households in Switzerland have access to fiber, versus 25% in the US. Switzerland doesn’t impose unbundling on fiber. The major fiber operator, Swisscom, owns its own lines.

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chrisper8y ago

Looking here: https://www.bakom.admin.ch/bakom/en/homepage/telecommunicati...

It seems Swisscom owns some lines, but not all of it. Like some of Swisscom Internet goes on lines that is not owned by them.

I guess a lot of the households in the mountains and other large terrains do not have fiber.

If you look here: https://map.geo.admin.ch/?topic=nga&mobile=false&lang=en&bgL...

Plenty of households have >=100 Mbit/s Internet. This map pretty much covers the same area as "where most Swiss people live."

rayinerOP8y ago

85% of Americans can also get 100 Mbps. It sounds like you might be in some place like Zurich, where the local power company deployed fiber and allows ISP to provide services over it. That’s a good model, but it’s not legally required. For the most part, Swiss telecom regulation is very similar to that in the United States.

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