History

BILANZ Telekom rating: Best Internet provider for private customers and best TV provider

Init7 wins gold in the BILANZ Telekom rating for the seventh time in a row!

BILANZ24

Launch FTTH availability map

The new website ftth.init7.net visualizes the progress of fibre-optic expansion on a daily basis.

FTTH

ftth.init7.net

Takeover of the provider business of ORIGON AG

ORIGON

Zattoo Home

Together with Zattoo, Init7 is launching a new independent bundle offer on the Swiss market.

ZATTOO

BILANZ Telekom-Rating: no. 1 internet provider residential customers

BILANZ2023

Easy7 launch

Init7 launches Easy7, an Internet service for everybody who likes it simple. Plain internet without bells and whistles. Unpack, connect, ready.

Launch Easy7

BILANZ Telekom-Rating: no. 1 internet provider residential customers

BILANZ2022

Init7 celebrates its 22nd birthday

Init7 22 Jahre

Init7 employs 50 people

BILANZ Telekom-Rating: no. 1 internet provider residential customers

BILANZ2021

Launch 10 and 25 Gbit/sec (Fiber-X / Fiber7-X2)

Init7 is the first Internet provider to offer 10 Gbit or 25 Gbit connections on a dedicated fibre (P2P technology).

www.init7.net

BILANZ Telekom-Rating: no. 1 internet provider residential customers and no. 1 tv provider

BILANZ2020

Init7 becomes co-sponsor of the FC Winterthur

Go Winti!

FCW

BILANZ Telekom-Rating: no. 1 internet provider residential customers

BILANZ2019

Takeover of mirror.init7.net (previously at SWITCH)

mirror.init7.net

BILANZ Telekom-Rating: no. 1 internet provider residential customers and no. 1 tv provider

BILANZ2018

Relocation within Winterthur

New address: Technoparkstrasse 5, 8406 Winterthur

BILANZ2018

Source: www.synaxis.ch

New corporate identity and new product world

The rabbits join us: Revision of logo, website and the entire corporate design. Fiber7.TV becomes TV7. The offers Copper7, Crossover7 and Hybrid7 are launched.

init7-logo

Takeover of easyzone GmbH

The merger creates the TV service Fiber7.TV.

init7-easyzone

Launch Fiber7

With Fiber7, Init7 is revolutionising the Internet market. For the first time, residential customers can enjoy a symmetrical bandwidth of 1/1 Gbit/sec at a reasonable price.

fiber7

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Relocation to Winterthur

New address: St. Georgenstrasse 70, 8400 Winterthur

St. Georgenstrasse 70
Source: www.bwgeneralbau.ch

New name: Init7 (Schweiz) AG

Successive expansion of the international backbone

Backbone 2009

Article about overbooking on blogg.ch

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Relocation within Zurich Oerlikon

New address: Elias-Canetti-Strasse 7, 8050 Zurich

ABB Historic Building
Source: de.foursquare.com

Launch public WLAN Zurich Airport (until 2012)

New product: Init Seven launches rack space and bandwidth at a flat rate.

5 height units and 1 Mbit/sec bandwidth for only CHF 333.00 per month!

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Opening of the Layer One data centre in Zurich

10 years later, the data centre is sold to green.ch.

Layer One

Init Seven is the main sponsor of the Winterthurer Musikfestwochen

And stiill supports the festival in 2021.

MFW

musikfestwochen.ch

The first apprentice is hired

The start of a successful collaboration with the Zurich Apprenticeship Association (Zürcher Lehrbetriebsverband ZLI).

www.zli.ch

Introduction of the cheapest dial-up service without pre-selection in Switzerland

einwahl.ch

First ADSL offer

Maximum bandwidth: 512 Kbit/sec

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Foundation of Init Seven AG

Entry of Init Seven AG in the Commercial Register with registered office in Zurich Oerlikon (Regensbergstrasse 242b, 8050 Zurich). No. of employees: 1 (Fredy Künzler)

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