Over a period of several years an interdisciplinary research team commissioned by «Bilanz» business magazine conducted a survey on the innovative power of Swiss companies. The researchers published their latest survey in the July issue – and ranked Swisscom third among the Swiss companies in the survey, after Logitech and Roche.
Swisscom drives innovation in many areas – like the Digital Business unit where it has been exploring new avenues of innovation since the end of 2015. One of these is open innovation and the creation of multiple interfaces with Swiss start-ups using incentive and cooperation programmes or shared work areas.
Swisscom also constantly pursues innovation within the company: Swisscom TV is largely an in-house development, tailored to the needs of Swiss customers. Launched last year, the "Internet Box 2" router was also completely developed in-house. And in the network area, Swisscom is among the most innovative companies in the world. "G.fast" technology on conventional copper wire can now achieve speeds of up to 500 Mbit/s, for instance. So suburbs and peripheral regions benefit from speeds that they would otherwise only achieve with direct access to fibre optics.