Taken from The Broadband Coverage in Europe 2023 Report - a study prepared for the European Commission DG Communications Networks, Content & Technology
by OMDIA and Point Topic Ltd.
National coverage by broadband technology
As in previous years, research on broadband coverage in Switzerland was included in the BCE study thanks to additional funding provided by Glasfasernetz Schweiz, a Swiss fibre optic industry association.
Almost all Swiss households (99.9%) were able to access at least one broadband technology by mid-2023, which was unchanged from last year. In rural regions, broadband services passed 99.5% of rural homes. NGA networks were available to 99.0% and 98.8% of households on national and rural level, respectively. The fixed Very High Capacity networks, i.e. FTTP & DOCSIS 3.1 networks, covered 89.3% of all Swiss households and 81.6% of rural households.
Switzerland exceeded the EU average across all combination categories, both on national and rural levels.
DSL remained the leading broadband technology in Switzerland, providing almost universal coverage (99.5%), as seen in previous years. Availability of high-speed copper-based technologies continued to be much higher than in other study countries: VDSL coverage expanded by 1.6 percentage points and reached 96.4% of households, while VDSL2 Vectoring networks passed 94.9% of homes. Switzerland continued to record the highest VDSL2 Vectoring coverage and came third among the study countries in terms of VDSL coverage.
DOCSIS 3.0 services were available to 85.8% of households by mid-2023. The majority of cable networks have been upgraded to DOCSIS 3.1 standard, which was available to 81.0% of Swiss households. FTTP was the only broadband technology that performed below EU average, with 45.8% of Swiss homes passed, compared to the EU average of 64.0%, this is despite a 2.7 percentage point growth in FTTP coverage compared to mid-2022.
At the end of June 2023, 98.5% of Swiss households were passed with 5G technology, while 5G services utilizing the 3.4–3.8 GHz frequency band were available to 84.6% of Swiss households.
In rural regions, DSL remained the most widespread technology with 98.8% of rural households covered. VDSL coverage (95.9%) was more than double the average EU level (37.8%), while VDSL2 Vectoring (94.6%) was almost five times higher than the EU average (22.0%).
Cable modem DOCSIS 3.0 passed 83.3% of rural homes, unchanged compared to mid-2022. DOCSIS 3.1 services were available to 72.9% of rural households. FTTP coverage remained low compared to other NGA technologies as only 23.5% of rural homes were passed by FTTP networks.
At the end of June 2023, 5G services were available to more than nine in ten (93.0%) rural Swiss households, similar to coverage reached by 5G networks using the 3.4–3.8 GHz band.
Regional coverage by broadband technology
Fixed VHCN (FTTP & DOCSIS 3.1) coverage levels varied greatly across the Swiss cantons, with the Genève, Bern, Neuchâtel, and Basel-Stadt cantons all recoding coverage higher than 95%, while the Schaffhausen and Thurgau cantons seeing coverage below 65%.
With FTTP deployments being limited in Switzerland, 12 cantons recorded FTTP coverage lower than 35%. On the other hand, Basel-Stadt and Genève cantons reached 93.3% and 93.2% FTTP coverage, respectively.
Rural fixed VHCN (FTTP & DOCSIS 3.1) coverage also varied significantly among Swiss cantons, ranging from 49.0% in Schwyz to 98.1% in Neuchâtel.
Data tables for Switzerland
Note: The 2023 figures represent the state of broadband coverage at the end of June 2023. The 2022 (end of June) and 2021 (end of June) figures are drawn from the previous studies conducted by IHS Markit, Omdia, and Point Topic.
All restatements are highlighted in italics.
Taken from The Broadband Coverage in Europe 2023 Report - a study prepared for the European Commission DG Communications Networks, Content & Technology
by OMDIA and Point Topic Ltd.
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