Hi all, Swisscom, and its predecessors, have never cared much about "public" service. Neither a market driven company, nor a customer-minded organization can describe our national incubant, Swisscom. It is a ruthless corporation, which has as only goal to have a better EBDITA result quarter after quarter.
Owning 99% of the ADSL market, with Fixnet and BBCS Wholesale services, they wish to acquire some additional marketshares in the content delivery area. When Cablecom acquired/merged with Swissonline, in its days, nobody cried faul play and complained that such a move was a monopolistic approach of the service provider/delivery market. When Cablecom came with voice services, again nobody made a big fuss about it. Swisscom is retooling itself in regard to a fierce competition that is gaining rapidly and widely market shares. Sorry for the regional and midrange ISPs, but I dont think that Swisscom cares much about you guys and doesnt view you as competitors, maybe just as yet another a low cost revenue stream... Maybe I am wrong, but neither the last mile deregulation, nor the consolidation Swissco made by integrating Bluewin into Fixnet will have an impact on the overall situation of ISPs in Switzerland. When Swisscom offered 0842 numbers and gave it first to Bluewin as birth gift, did it prevent ISPs to find a clever alternativ within the next few months? It enabled quite a few ISPs to grow and gain more market shares. We had to rethink ourselves and reinvent the concepts that we based our architectures upon. The same happend when ADSL was introduced. We shall not forget that Swisscom is the incubant and therefor will always have a huge leap of advance on any CLEC, weither be it in the Voice or the Data market. Now I'll turn silent again for a while... Cheers, Karim _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.init7.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
