Switzerland got 1Gbit/s Internet!

[FloGer]

Hi Guys,

 

I just saw some advertisements in CH from Swisscom (largest ISP, phone, TV etc provider) mentioning that they are launching 1Gb/s internet!

 

Have a look at their website (in English): http://giga.swisscom.ch/en

 

For long Switzerland was lagging behind our European neighbours with internet speeds, and so I really was NOT expecting this. So this is some great and mostly surprising news!

[Jrobertson]

Dude if you think Europe is bad you should see the middle east, i have 10mb/s and i want 100 (max) but they never come and install it

[Jrobertson]

Lel 10 Mbps is the average here

But spain is fun

[kuzimins]

Hah even Latvia has those speeds for a while. 

[Jeroen1322]

Welcome to the twenty first century!

[sof006]

UK is getting 1Gb very soon as well I'm currently on 80Mb

[BlackMamba]

Lel 10 Mbps is the average here

same in italy  

[s3ns3]

these top 10 countries by speed are happy countries. http://www.netindex.com/

[Coombzy]

UK is getting 1Gb very soon as well I'm currently on 80Mb

actually they are not installing that line till the rest of the country has at least 25mbs internet supposedly by 2016

[Harjan]

 

Dude if you think Europe is bad you should see the middle east, i have 10mb/s and i want 100 (max) but they never come and install it 

 

I get like 3,7 Mbps....   
But yeah that's because the only cable that runs to my house, is a telephone cable.....

[s3ns3]

actually they are not installing that line till the rest of the country has at least 25mbs internet supposedly by 2016

this is so important. you can have a provider with 1gb internet. USELESS if you don`t have metropolitan fiber network

[JupiteL]

How I love my 1mb/s connection :'D

[ZetZet]

Lithuanian here AMA.

Just kidding. I pay 8 eur for 50/50 and see no reason to upgrade. We already had 300mb/s here for a while and that is way overkill too.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3136957517 1000km~ distance

[Jrobertson]

Internet is so cheap in my country but they never upgrade it when you ask.

 

When i first moved here i had 1 mb/s and we wanted fiber optics installed, so we called and they said in a week (this was last year july) they came may this year

[Frix]

I'm getting 70 down in the UK at the moment and am in one of the most limited places to get fast internet in the UK.

[Mo5]

I could get 1Gbit down and up, but it costs 1000€.

[AlwaysFSX]

Needs gigabit up and down EVERYWHEREEEEEEEEE

[Damien C]

UK is getting 1Gb very soon as well I'm currently on 80Mb

 

Some places in the UK already have 1Gb if you are willing to pay for it and are in a area where it can be provided by the limited number of ISP's.

 

BT need atleast 3 years minimum to provide 1Gb nationally since they are struggling to provide even 100Mb to most of there customers on the Infinity Network.

 

Virgin are about to start doing 150Mb, but they could also quite easily up that to 1Gb if there was a market need for it and it was justified but at the moment it isn't so they won't be doing it for I would say atleast 2 years.

 

Virgin did a trial giving people 1Gb connections on Fibre and found that most people, could only use around 400Mb really for legit reasons and anything above that was Torrents or Newsgroup downloads and uploads.

 

There really is no reason why as a residential customer you would need more than 200Mb, even if you stream etc from you pc at home to you laptop/tablet or phone whilst out and about the upload speed required for that is at max only going to be around the 10Mb mark.

 

If Virgin offered a free upgrade tomorrow to 1Gb I would take it but if I had to pay I wouldn't bother since I have no use for it.

[sof006]

actually they are not installing that line till the rest of the country has at least 25mbs internet supposedly by 2016

BT has nearly gotten infinity across 80% of the UK. My area got it late last year, everyone I know is in a fibre optic enabled area.

[sof006]

What I have 1.5mb down.

Check your postcode on BT or Skys website... or Samknows.com and find out when or if your area has fibre or not

[Bakgrund]

Old.

 

Had this in Sweden for years now.

 

Companies can even get 10 gigabit.

[Coombzy]

BT has nearly gotten infinity across 80% of the UK. My area got it late last year, everyone I know is in a fibre optic enabled area.

80% of the country is not true actually most places in the south or dorset area and mostly up north farm areas the countryside etc do not have even 10mbps by 2016 they are planning to have 98% of the country at 25mbps standard and then the 1gbp line will be installed.

[sof006]

80% of the country is not true actually most places in the south or dorset area and mostly up north farm areas the countryside etc do not have even 10mbps by 2016 they are planning to have 98% of the country at 25mbps standard and then the 1gbp line will be installed.

Well apparently my house can only get 40Mb and thats the highest it will ever go... They couldn't be more wrong

 

I bet it wont be long before your area gets fibre

[Coombzy]

Well apparently my house can only get 40Mb and thats the highest it will ever go... They couldn't be more wrong

 

I bet it wont be long before your area gets fibre

long the estimated date is 2015 I am on a border the figures you have been given are very wrong go and look at the project for internet for the UK there is more than 60% still to be done 

[rashdanml]

Time to move to Switzerland.