關注社會:瑞士電信CEO身亡疑爲自殺

Carsten Schloter, the chief executive of Swisscom, has been found dead at his home, in what police suspect was a case of suicide.

瑞士電信(Swisscom)首席執行官卡斯騰•施洛特(Carsten Schloter)被發現在家中身亡，警方懷疑他死於自殺。

Switzerland’s biggest telecoms group said Schloter, 49, had been found yesterday morning at his residence in Freiburg in western Switzerland and that an investigation into the exact circumstances surrounding his death was under way.

這家瑞士最大的電信運營商宣佈，現年49歲的施洛特昨日上午在他位於瑞士西部弗賴堡(Freiburg)的居所被發現身亡，警方正在調查他確切的死因。

Urs Schäppi, Schloter’s deputy and head of the company’s Swiss operations, will take over management of the company on an interim basis.

施洛特的副手、該公司瑞士業務負責人Urs Schäppi將暫時接手公司的管理。

Hansueli Loosli, Swisscom’s chairman, said the company and its “entire workforce are deeply saddened and pass on their condolences to the family and relatives”.

瑞士電信董事長韓穗裏•魯斯利(Hansueli Loosli)表示，該公司及“全體員工深感悲痛，謹向施洛特家人和親屬表示悼念”。

Out of consideration for Schloter’s family, Swisscom will not release any further information surrounding his death.

出於對施洛特家人的照顧，瑞士電信將不再發布有關他過世的進一步信息。

Schloter, a German citizen, was well respected in the telecoms industry and among analysts as one of the best of a younger generation of senior managers.

施洛特是一名德國公民，他在電信業內和分析員圈子中深受尊敬，被視爲較年輕一代高級經理中最優秀的人才之一。

He began his career at Mercedes-Benz, before switching cars for telecoms by joining the German group Debitel in 1992.

他在梅賽德斯•奔馳(Mercedes-Benz)開始他的職業生涯，1992年從汽車行業轉向電信，加盟德國Debitel集團。

In 2000, he joined Swisscom as head of its mobile division, before being promoted to chief executive in 2006, after his predecessor, Jens Alder, was forced to resign following a clash with the Swiss government, which is Swisscom’s largest shareholder, over the group’s international expansion strategy.

2000年，他進入瑞士電信，出任移動部門主管，其後在2006年晉升爲首席執行官，此前他的前任延斯•阿爾德(Jens Alder)在與瑞士政府就集團的國際擴張戰略發生衝突後被迫辭職。瑞士政府是瑞士電信的最大股東。

Under Schloter’s tenure, Swisscom has remained dominant in the national mobile market in spite of renewed challenges from lower-cost competitors Orange and Sunrise, shifting to bundled services to prevent price erosion.

在施洛特掌舵期間，瑞士電信在國內移動市場保住霸主地位，藉助服務捆綁防止價格侵蝕，儘管成本更低的競爭對手Orange和Sunrise對其發起新的挑戰。

Although the group’s revenues have declined slightly in recent years, it has managed to maintain its profitability and last year made net profits of SFr1.76bn ($1.9bn) from revenues of SFr11.4bn.

雖然該集團的營收近年來略微下降，但它成功保持了盈利能力，去年實現營收114億瑞士法郎，淨利潤17.6億瑞士法郎（合19億美元）。