leweb: techcrunch basht swisscom (arrington vs. huber)

einiges lief schief an der web2.0-konferenz leweb von letzter woche. so war es nicht nur arschkalt, am ersten tag gab es auch kein internet.

jetzt ist laut den verantwortlichen der schuldige gefunden: swisscom. der schweizer exmonopolist verlangte 100’000 euro und sollte dafür eine super internetverbindung liefern. das klappte nicht.

was jetzt allerdings ganz ganz blöd ist: nicht irgendeiner kritisiert, sondern auch und vor allem michael arrington. seines zeichens vielbeachteter us-startup-guru und vorschreiber mit zig hunderttausenden von lesern. er schiesst sogar persönlich gegen swisscom-sprecher sepp huber:

Le Web, which paid €100,000 to Swisscom to ensure lightning fast Internet, had no Internet connectivity. Nothing for the audience, nothing for the stage, nothing in the press room.

Swisscom spokesman Sepp Huber media that the high demands of users and the organizer could not be met. Swisscom is currently analyzing the causes. Huber, however like to stress that contrary to the connectivity different reports about 80% of the two day event was ensured and on the second day of the conference almost worked smoothly.

This is, to put it bluntly, a lie. A complete and total fabrication. And there are 1,700 people who attended the event that can verify this. There was no connectivity during the event, I was not able to blog a word from the conference hall or the press room. There was not 80% coverage. Things most definitely did not “almost work smoothly.” Things didn’t work at all.

anscheinend versagte ein provider auch mal bei der techcrunch50-konferenz. damals einigte sich arrington und die firma aber, keinen namen zu nennen. wahrscheinlich floss damals ein schweigegeld.

…und leweb-organisator loïc le meur schreibt:

Our supplier, Swisscom was unable to make it work throughout the two days. Wifi for highly demanding geek crowds above 1500 participants is something no supplier has much experience of and I don’t know any event where it really works frankly. But it is a shame that Swisscom could not even make the 100mbps link we had with the ethernet cables all around the venue. Even worse, they did not manage to fix the problem over the two days. My ethernet cables next to the stage did not even work to give you an idea except for short whiles, despite the priorities we had requested to be given to the stage, startup room, cables in the front of the room, press room, partners, etc. Nothing worked basically, it has been totally unprofessional and unacceptable from a major supplier such as Swisscom.

auch überblogger robert scoble beteiligt sich in den tc-comments am swisscom-bashing:

I’ll never use Swiss Telecom for a conference. They were the worst provider of Internet services at a conference I’ve ever experienced. It really was that bad. Do not ever use them.

auf inisde-it.ch hat sich auch bloggingtom darüber ausgelassen.