Federal Council elects new ComCom members

 The Federal Council has elected Stephan Netzle and Andreas Bühlmann as new members of the Federal Communications Commission (ComCom). They succeed Hans-Rudolf Schurter and Beat Kappeler, who left the Commission at the end of 2007. The 50-year-old business lawyer Stephan Netzle has extensive experience in telecommunications law, as announced by the Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (Uvek). With Netzle, the Commission once again has a proven business representative. The 49-year-old Andreas Bühlmann heads the Office of Finance of the Canton of Solothurn. As a former deputy director of the Swiss Federal Banking Commission, he is familiar with regulatory issues, writes the Uvek.
ComCom, which deals with regulation in the liberalized telecommunications market, now once again consists of seven members. In addition to Bühlmann and Netzle, these are Marc Furrer (Chairman), Reiner Eichenberger, Christian Bovet, Jean-Pierre Hubaux and Monica Duca Widmer.