Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Chris, T-DSL would be lovely, but I am sure that it is not as simple as that, even if the geography permits it--there are licensing requirements, and the Swiss regulators seem to be squarely on Swisscom's side when it comes to local loop competition. Remember that Switzerland is not in the EU and hence not obliged to liberalise its telecoms market unless it wants to. I live on the lakeside road, and because all the houses on our street are connected with in-the-air telephone lines we cannot get DSL--Swisscom says that only underground wires can be sufficiently shielded. And we have no cable TV either on our street. So ISDN is the best I can do. Nathan Christer Almqvist wrote: > Hi Nathan, > > Deutsche Telecom had an advert in the papers yesterday saying that > they now have 2.4 million broadband subscribers and that they cover > most of the country. The whole country will soon be covered as they > now start "T-DSL by satellite". You should be able to access that > service from Zürich, or are you on the wrong side of the hill? To wet > your appetite: speed is 1.5 Mbit per second. > > Then you can look at my new website! (URL at the bottom of this page.) > > Chris - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html