Hello everyone,
I just read that Netgear proposes a firmware upgrade for their routers to support ADSL2+ and in Germany ISP are overbidding themselves with always increasing bandwidths.
Does anyone have reliable information about what swiss broadband ISPs plan to offer in the next future?
Regards, Jean-Pierre
Jean-Pierre Schwickerath wrote:
Hello everyone,
I just read that Netgear proposes a firmware upgrade for their routers to support ADSL2+ and in Germany ISP are overbidding themselves with always increasing bandwidths.
Does anyone have reliable information about what swiss broadband ISPs plan to offer in the next future?
Yes, a new low-bandwidth product.
Swiss ISP's can only offer what Swisscom gives them (for ADSL that is). And Swisscom is not very forthcoming in this regard. The only true competition they have is Cablecom.
And if you look at the speed distribution then 600/100 wins hands down with IIRC about 80% market share. Whether this is because it is enough bandwidth, or because higher bandwidth is too expensive is up to the reader.
Andre Oppermann schrieb:
Hi.
Swiss ISP's can only offer what Swisscom gives them (for ADSL that is). And Swisscom is not very forthcoming in this regard. The only true competition they have is Cablecom.
Put that way, Swisscom will not upgrade speed, until Cablecom upgraded yet another time.
And if you look at the speed distribution then 600/100 wins hands down with IIRC about 80% market share. Whether this is because it is enough bandwidth, or because higher bandwidth is too expensive is up to the reader.
That's probably the reason for Sunrise offering a 150/50 abo with up to 20 MB of traffic per month. If you have more traffic, you pay per MB.
I doubt though that this will be a big success since flatrates are very popular.
CU, Venty
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