No agreement yet on the last mile

The Unification Conference of National and
Council of States discussed the Swisscom last mile bill on Monday, but has not yet found a compromise.
It meets again on Tuesday. The councillors agree that Swisscom only has to grant competitors access via the copper cable of the former PTT. However, the modalities still have to be fixed. If no agreement is reached at the conciliation conference,
the entire draft revision would be removed from the business list of the
Parliament and the opening of the last mile would have been limited to
postponed indefinitely. As the two councils did not reach an agreement in the procedure for reconciling differences
the bill had to go to the conciliation conference. The
Council of States insists on the unrestricted opening of access to the
households, the National Council, on the other hand, wants to cover the last mile between a
local exchange and the house connection for Swisscom's competitors only
open for two years.