Editing Local-loop unbundling (section)

===Switzerland===
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[[Switzerland]] is one of the last [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development|OECD]] nations to provide for unbundling. The Swiss Federal Supreme Court held in 2001 that the 1996 Swiss Telecommunications Act did not require it. The government then enacted an ordinance providing for unbundling in 2003 and the [[Federal Assembly (Switzerland)|Swiss Parliament]] amended the act in 2006. While infrastructure-based access is now generally available, unbundled fast bitstream access is limited to a period of four years after the entry into force of the act.

Unbundling requests tend to be managed by the courts; however, unlike in the EU, Swiss law does not provide for an ''ex ante'' regulation of access conditions by the regulator. Instead, under the Swiss ''ex post'' regulation system, each new entrant must first try to reach an individual agreement with [[Swisscom]], the state-owned ILEC.