Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, provided you can access the satellite from where you live, how will the gnomes of Zürich know that you are doing T-DSL by satellite and not just watching satellite TV? All you need is a German billing address for Deutche Telecom (and that can be arranged) and you will be a high speed surfer As ever, Chris >Chris, > >T-DSL would be lovely, but I am sure that it is not as simple as that, even if >the geography permits it--there are licensing requirements, and the Swiss >regulators seem to be squarely on Swisscom's side when it comes to local loop >competition. Remember that Switzerland is not in the EU and hence >not obliged to >liberalise its telecoms market unless it wants to. I live on the >lakeside road, >and because all the houses on our street are connected with >in-the-air telephone >lines we cannot get DSL--Swisscom says that only underground wires can be >sufficiently shielded. And we have no cable TV either on our street. >So ISDN is >the best I can do. > >Nathan > >Christer Almqvist wrote: > >> Hi Nathan, >> >> Deutsche Telecom had an advert in the papers yesterday saying that >> they now have 2.4 million broadband subscribers and that they cover >> most of the country. The whole country will soon be covered as they >> now start "T-DSL by satellite". You should be able to access that >> service from Zürich, or are you on the wrong side of the hill? To wet >> your appetite: speed is 1.5 Mbit per second. >> >> Then you can look at my new website! (URL at the bottom of this page.) >> >> Chris > >-- >Nathan Wajsman >Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland > >e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch >mobile: +41 78 732 1430 > >Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm >General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Christer Almqvist D 20255 Hamburg and / or F 50590 Regnéville sur Mer http://www.almqvist.net/chris/new - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html