2023-04-21 03:51:58
According to an Inside-it article, Swisscom is trying to become popular once more on the Swiss fiber optic market. After playing the card of arrogance for ages, he is trying to reassure his competitors, in the hope of avoiding the caudine forks of the Competition Commission (Comco). In the meantime, Swisscom has already saved a lot of time!
And we understand it, because its position is difficult, since no one wants to open up its network to its competitors, even if at one time it was financed by public funds… The fact remains that Swisscom has just sent an e-mail to various suppliers network, where he discusses the conversion of approximately half a million fiber optic connections from the single-fiber point-to-multipoint (P2MP) model to the four-fiber (P2P) model, as required by Comco.
All connections fitted?
The Swisscom email also contains significant information, according to Inside-it: there are fiber optic connections that have been built according to the single-fiber model, but which might theoretically be left as they are. This applies especially to new constructions.
However, Swisscom writes that it has decided to “also convert into P2P architecture the P2MP fiber optic connections which are not blocked today and which can therefore be marketed”. Questioned by Inside-it.ch, a spokesperson for Swisscom, confirms that Swisscom will “convert all P2MP connections without exception”.
Swisscom regularizes itself?
Also according to Inside-it, Swisscom does not want to reveal how many connections it is. Internal statistics, of which inside-it.ch is aware, show that of the approximately 2 million FTTH connections currently on the market, approximately 250,000 are built according to the P2MP standard — and will therefore be adapted.
Taking into account the connections under construction, it might be 800,000 units, according to the same text. My comment? With the arrival of the new CEO, Swisscom is trying to regularize its relations with the market and to comply with the expectations of 2023. Obviously, a certain transparency has replaced an arrogance which was becoming unbreathable. Let’s hope it continues…
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