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'Swisscom' AG is the leading telephone company in Switzerland. Swisscom is present nationwide, delivering all services and products for mobile, fixed and IP-based voice and data communications.

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History

Divisions

Swisscom Fixnet

Swisscom Mobile

Swisscom Solutions

Swisscom IT Services

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History

Swisscom used to be part of the state-owned monopoly PTT (''Post Telefon Telegraph''
in German, ''Poste Téléphone Télégraphe'' in French, ''Posta Telefono Telegrafo'' in Italian). In the mid-nineties, the Swiss government, in line with general liberalisation of the European telecommunications market, split the postal and telecommunications divisions into two separate companies, Swiss Post and PTT Telecom, which was privatised in 1997 as Swisscom. In 1998 Swisscom became an incorporated company. The Swiss government remains as a majority shareholder.

Divisions

Swisscom Fixnet

Swisscom Fixnet had 3 million analogue telephone lines and 924,000 ISDN lines.
Its internet division is called ''Bluewin''. The broadband boom continues to dominate communications in Switzerland: Within a single year, Swisscom Fixnet increased the number of ADSL access lines from 656,000 to 948,000. With Bluewin, Swisscom offers the largest online portal in Switzerland for residential customers.

Swisscom Mobile

Swisscom's mobile division is called ''Swisscom Mobile''. Vodafone had a 25% stake in Swisscom Mobile, which Swisscom bought back by the end of December 2006. The mobile network provides coverage in 99,8% of the populated area of Switzerland, and is used by 4 million customers. Since November 2004, Swisscom Mobile has been the first Swiss mobile network operator to offer UMTS mobile phones. At the end of 2004 the UMTS network already covered 90 percent of the population in Switzerland. By the end of June 2005 Public Wireless LAN (WLAN) was in use at 800 Swisscom Mobile hotspots in Switzerland and at 2137 Swisscom Eurospot locations in other countries. Mobile Unlimited, an in-house development by Swisscom Mobile that enables seamless switching between GPRS/UMTS/EDGE/WLAN, ensures unlimited communications even when on the move.
Its main local competitors are Sunrise and Orange.

Swisscom Solutions

The enterprise solutions division is called ''Swisscom Solutions''. This division is the point of contact for business customers, specialises in providing complex and customised integrated solutions.

Swisscom IT Services

''Swisscom IT Services'' is one of the leading providers of IT services in Switzerland.
The company is also a major shareholder in Telecom FL, the main telecom operator in Liechtenstein. Until 1999, Switzerland operated telephone services in the principality, which formed part of the Swiss telephone numbering plan, but in that year, Liechtenstein adopted its own international dialling code. However, the principality still does not have its own telephone directory, its telephone numbers are instead listed in Swisscom's directory for the neighbouring Swiss canton of Graubunden.

Comments

Swisscom's nickname, mainly used in the media, is the "Blue Giant".

External links

★ Swisscom

★ Swisscom Mobile

★ Swisscom Fixnet

★ Swisscom Solutions

★ Swisscom IT Services

★ Swisscom Mobile Labs

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★ Yahoo! - Swisscom AG Company Profile