The investment per inhabitant in telecommunications equipment is the most important in the world. In 2005 effectively, close to 70 % of the population is linked to Internet at home (link with OFS).

In spite of a complex topography, connections by rail, road and air are among the most developed (71 277 km of roads, 5 100 km of railways, 1 640 km of motorways, 180 km of tramways and 65 km of waterways).

Motorway and railroad systems cross the seven cantons and allow rapid access to the international airports of Geneva, Zurich and Basle as well as to close-by European airports. The big hubs of the continent are thus rapidly reached.

Moreover, the region also has about ten airports that can take on business jets and private aeroplanes.

LAKE GENEVA REGION is linked to the European network of high-speed trains (TGV, ICE, Cisalpino, Thalys, etc.), enabling numerous connections with the surrounding countries (link CFF) :

• France,
• Germany,
• Italy,
• Belgium,
• Denmark,
• Luxembourg,
• The Netherlands,
• Austria,
• Spain,
• The Czech Republic,
• Hungary.

In the region, the trains, are reputed for their punctuality and link all the Swiss cities to distances that last, in average, less than two hours.

LAKE GENEVA REGION offers hundreds of routes (1.7 km per km2) and the network is constantly modernised. Moreover, LAKE GENEVA REGION has the particularity to be situated in one of the 3 major North-South roads of the continent linking Sweden to the south of Italy via the Saint Gotthard tunnel. The liaison with Rotterdam and the oceans can be done via the river Rhine.

A particularity of LAKE GENEVA REGION and the country: the free ports (17 entities spread all over Switzerland). Situated next to the major roads and the borders, these logistic centres are kept for goods that transit through Switzerland. They do not pass the free zone’s entrance and exit formalities.

The Swiss Post offers one of the densest and most efficient European networks (Statistics).

In LAKE GENEVA REGION, the offer in matters of energies is performing. Western Switzerland produces a great deal of hydraulic energy (in 2005: 32.8 billion kWh for a total production of 57.9 billion kWh) which it resells with the support of its Energy West Switzerland structure (EOS) and FMB Energy SA. Switzerland has exported 40.7 billion kWh in 2005.

It is said that Switzerland is Europe’s water tower. It possesses 6 % of the European soft water reserves. The Rhone, Rhine and Inn have their source here and flow into the Mediterranean, the North Sea or the Black Sea. Switzerland has more than 1 500 lakes.

Water is the country’s only raw material. The hydraulic energy supplies about 56 % of Switzerland’s energy needs. With its 285 m, the dam of the powerful Grande Dixence is the highest in the world.

Swiss water distributors produce 1 billion cubic metres each year, or the equivalent of a water cube of 1000 cubic metres. SThe quantity of renewable water per person and per year is often taken as a barometer for the drinking water availability of a country: