We have been informed that Axians and Swisscom will be installing glass fibre connections in our village (Zuri Oberland). We have been inspected and I know the following:
Installation is free of charge
installation is up to a new socket which can be installed anywhere where a cable socket exists (but only one)
installation will begin October 2024
we are not obliged to change from UPC/Sunrise to Swisscom to use it
we are already on Sunrise “Giga” and get 850mbps with a VPN and 940 without. Wi-fi is about 300mbps - so I see no reason to change…
We have had exactly the same out in the sticks in Neuchâtel and a guy came a couple of months ago to check our place out and stuck an A4 paper on the wall in the cellar to indicate something or other.
Installation will start in May but it will take a few months to do the whole village apparently.
We are perfectly happy with what we have now from Sunrise so we see no reason to change but given that the installation was free if we did it now along with everyone else we saw no reason to refuse it.
It’s been a long road since the late 90s when the upgrade from dial-up to cable, even at 50mbps, was massive. Then each increase is speed 50 > 100 was very noticable, but from then on each increase, though good on speed tests, seemed less impressive.
From 1Gb to 10 Gb - will that really be 10x faster, or just cost more…
Several years ago we had the same offer of a free glass fibre installation from Swisscom. Some of our neighbours rejected the offer on the grounds that they were happy with the existing system. Now Swisscom are stripping out all the old copper wire installations and ours has now gone. I guess that at some time in the future those who rejected the glass fibre offer will feel the pressure to upgrade, possibly at their own expense.
