Country brief: Switzerland (CH) | EU member? | No |
| OECD member? | Yes |
| Regulatory authority: | BAKOM (link) |
| Number of operators: | 3 |
| Population: | 8482152 |
| Spectrum assigned: | 1102.6 MHz |
| Data volume 2018: | 664,424 TB |
| Data volume per pop 2018: | 6.68 GB/month/capita (top: Finland, 30.23) |
| Spectrum usage 2018: | 108.42 MB/year/MHz/pop (top: Finland, 622.87) |
| Group | Operator | SIMs | Total low and high frequency spectrum MHz | Data volume 2018 TB | MB/year/MHz per pop 2018 | 2018 actual GB/month/sub | Max GB/month with 4G-only | Max GB/month with 5G |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ● Swisscom | Swisscom-CH | 6,551,000 | 503.8 | 345,300 | 126.0 | 4.50 | 25.22 | 149.91 |
| ● Sunrise | Sunrise-CH | 2,356,300 | 319.2 | 176,519 | 99.6 | 6.39 | 29.36 | 163.45 |
| ● Iliad | Salt-CH | 1,883,000 | 279.6 | 141,215 | 87.5 | 6.40 | 32.11 | 151.89 |
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Rewheel Insights, research reports and external articles citing Rewheel about Switzerland
Rolling out 5G fibre-through-the-air under the exceptionally strict Swiss EMF radiation limits
2019
Switzerland
Sunrise
spectrum
massiveMIMO
5G
mobile-first
December 2019
In December 2019 Sunrise invited Rewheel to try its 5G based home broadband solution in Switzerland. Rewheel had previously provided consulting support for Sunrise in preparation for the 5G spectrum auction that was held in early 2019. After the modelling work and conceptual sessions, we were eager to go back to Switzerland to see how Sunrise’s engineers managed to turn theory into practice.
Site density is key to LTE network performance – and critical for 5G
2019
spectrum
networkeconomics
Finland
Switzerland
Germany
Elisa
Play
Telenor
Vodafone
5G
February 2019
Rewheel-Tutela research study. Analysis of 99 mobile networks across EU28, Norway and Switzerland, key network performance drivers and implications on 5G infrastructure and spectrum investment strategies.
