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Swiss ISP init7 launches unlimited symmetrical gbit FTTH for $73/month

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Re: Swiss ISP init7 launches unlimited symmetrical gbit FTTH for $73/month

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Post by nonuby »

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.

Re: Swiss ISP init7 launches unlimited symmetrical gbit FTTH for $73/month

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Post by sschueller »

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]

[1] https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/ewz/de/index/telecom/ewz_zuerin...

Re: Swiss ISP init7 launches unlimited symmetrical gbit FTTH for $73/month

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Post by hocuspocus »

I'm very glad to see it happening. Finally we might catch up with Baltic countries...

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.

Re: Swiss ISP init7 launches unlimited symmetrical gbit FTTH for $73/month

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Post by alternize »

nonuby wrote: post #12

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 bei…

init7, the company behind fiber7, has already a pretty good peering and international pops: http://www.init7.net/en/backbone/

Re: Swiss ISP init7 launches unlimited symmetrical gbit FTTH for $73/month

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Post by Haiperlink »

hocuspocus wrote: post #15

I'm very glad to see it happening. Finally we might catch up with Baltic countries... 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 ISP…

Living in the canton of Zurich and having my office in Dübendorf this makes me happy! :) We are currently paying about 250$ for 10Mbit/s symmectrical fiber.

Re: Swiss ISP init7 launches unlimited symmetrical gbit FTTH for $73/month

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Post by ojii »

illumen wrote: post #8
ojii wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Move to Tokyo and get symmetrical FTTH for ~30USD/month.

Just move inside a rack. There's a lot of buzzing noise, but it's cold, dark, and there's good internet access.

Mind explaining how living inside a rack is comparable to living in Tokyo? My apartment in Bunkyo, Tokyo is as quite as the one in Zurich, Switzerland was. And if that's too noisy there's lovely neighbourhoods like Kichijoji that are even more quite. Where the "cold" and "dark" comes from I do not know, I'd recommend you visit here in summer and experience for yourself that it's anything but cold.
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