The city of Zürich voted on having fiber to every home/building. The fiber is independently operated from the service providers (EWZ (City of Zürich electricity) and Swisscom manage the fiber). You can pick from as many as 15 different providers in the area of internet/television and phone [1]<p>[1] <a href="https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/ewz/de/index/telecom/ewz_zuerinet/ServiceProvider.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/ewz/de/index/telecom/ewz_zuerin...</a>
Tangentially related: Init7 is one of the few providers here in Switzerland that offer native IPv6 connectivity to end-users (they might be the only one offering it to end-users).<p>This makes this already amazing offering doubly interesting because it would finally allow me to play with native IPv6
I'm very glad to see it happening. Finally we might catch up with Baltic countries...<p>Switzerland has the money and a population that isn't particularly hard to cover thoroughly compared to some nearby countries. Yet we wasted nearly 15 years in some cantons arguing about roles and responsibilities, while it was pretty clear that local utility companies need to be in charge of horizontal fiber deployment, and the ISPs of the rest, preferably without bitching about the costs of vertical deployment. Sadly our politicians are apparently more interested in letting UPC have nearly full control over the cable network, as long as the duopoly situation allows for ridiculous profits and dividends from Swisscom.
The provider Tweak here in the Netherlands is also launching symmetrical 1Gb/s FTTH in select cities:<p><a href="http://www.tweak.nl/consument/fiber/productoverzicht_odf.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.tweak.nl/consument/fiber/productoverzicht_odf.htm...</a>
Damn, I'm paying $80/month here in Australia for 3 mbit/s. The local exchange has been maxxed out for the last 10 years. Its possible we have the worst Internet of all developed countries.
Have much capacity do they have to offload that traffic, I imagine they have largest ports on peering exchanges locally, with some other local private peering, and perhaps they got some backhaul to AMS-IX, LINX and others, but you can read the issues peering exchanges are facing with capacity and the cost of highest 100G ports (where available). How much transit do they have to carry the rest? I jut cant see this being feasible unless its p2p on their own network. Last mile is only a small part of the problem.
Hmm, Swisscom have been waving FTTH here (Winti..) for the past few months, and I've seen lots of workers actually laying cable, but nothing to the actual apartment yet..<p>Fortunately I work for a Swisscom owned co. so there are some benefits that hopefully will eventually trickle down, otherwise I think I'd be very tempted by init7's offer (we also use them at work, and they're a good bunch).
There is a nice "gigabit community" being built in Sout Carolina near Charleston: <a href="http://www.nextonsc.com/gigafi/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nextonsc.com/gigafi/</a>
Meanwhile, Comcast is patting themselves on the back because they just upgraded me to 50MB! I feel like I'm being served $25 boxed wine by an idiot waiter while across the street a guy is getting a $16,000 Richebourg for the same price.
xDSL-prices are still quite high here, at least in Gèneve.<p>I'm not 100% sure if Swisscom has a monopoly as I have only lived here since January but here are Swisscom's price list for xDSL (rough calculation from CHF to EUR):<p>5/0,5 Mbit: 30 euro<p>10/1 Mbit: 40 euro<p>20/2 Mbit: 55 euro<p>For these connections you also have to pay for a fixed telephone line (hello Swisscom, this is the 21-century, not the 19:th!) which costs 20 euro per month.<p>(Source: <a href="http://www.swisscom.ch/en/residential/internet/internet-at-home.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.swisscom.ch/en/residential/internet/internet-at-h...</a>)<p>Back in Finland I got a 50/10Mbit connection for 40 euros which included IPTV.
Fuck it I'm moving to Switzerland.<p>Honestly if I could find symmetrical adsl2 I'd be happy. Download speed is nice but I'm a gamer upstream is everything.