[[Switzerland]] is one of the last [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development|OECD]] nations to provide for unbundling because the Swiss Federal Supreme Court held in 2001 that the 1996 Swiss Telecommunications Act did not require it. The Government enacted an unbundling ordinance in 2003, and Parliament amended the act in 2006. While infrastructure-based access is now generally available, unbundled fast bitstream access is limited to four years after the act enters into force.
Unbundling requests tend to be tied up before the courts, however, because unlike in the EU, Swiss law does not provide for the regulator's ''ex-ante'' regulation of access conditions. 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.
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==Further reading==
* [[Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development|OECD]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=WpmzcqmgMbAC&q=universal+service+and+rate+restructuring+in+telecommunications ''Universal Service and Rate Restructuring in Telecommunications''], OrganizationOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Publishing, 1991. {{ISBN|92-64-13497-2}}
