Is it just where the swisscom execs live get the higher speeds or what?!
I’d have assumed that they’d have rolled it out from zurich to the more densely populated areas and/or those where it’s physically next to existing new infra.
There also doesn’t seem to be any advice as to when any of this will ever change.
Is there hope for those of us who live in these 200MB backwaters?
Those published numbers are the max. possible but it depends on the slowest chain in the link- which maybe to your house is a lot slower, so it is not just dependent on the trunk line. It would still be no surprise if those execs had prioritised where they live.
This is a good decision because Swisscom’s bullshit “FTTH” (it was not, it was Fibre to the Neighbourhood in a way) prevented alternative providers (like init7) from using the connection and selling a better service at a lower price.
Swisscom uses this ruling in their latest financial results to talk about how 400K homes were blocked (that’s a lot of homes) due to their anti-competitive practices:
"Due to the ongoing proceedings of the Competition Commission, Swisscom cannot market nearly 400,000 fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connections built using point-to-multipoint architecture (P2MP).
The annual budget for fibre-optic investments of CHF 500 million to CHF 600 million remains unchanged, but the expansion is proceeding somewhat more slowly than originally planned. Specifically, this means that it will only be possible to connect 50%-55% of connections with FTTH by 2025. But Swisscom will continue to invest in FTTH expansion after 2025 and will increase FTTH coverage to 70%-80% by 2030."
I think they are also waiting sometimes one lighting new connections, as our building got connected in August, and I thought we’d have fibre available “soon”, but Init7 told me that even Swisscom cannot offer the service until FAC / COMCO(WEKO) finished all the proceedings.
There are articles where they estimated October 2023, but that doesn’t seem to be the case yet.