European Commission endorses French access rules on fiber in-building wiring
The European Commission has endorsed the rules to be imposed by French regulator, ARCEP, on operators rolling out fiber lines into homes, regardless of whether the operator has significant market power. ARCEP wants to force all in-building operators to provide access to their fiber networks to alternative operators in order to give people a choice of competing providers of high-speed Internet access.
For the very densely populated areas, ARCEP also requires any in-building operator to meet “reasonable requests from alternative operators to roll-out extra, fiber lines on condition that the requesting operator is willing to co-invest. Additionally, ARCEP defines where the in-building fibre connection point must be located.”
The European Commission has agrees with ARCEP’s measures and asks ARCEP to monitor carefully the rollout of FTTH in France and to verify whether these regulations alone ensure competition or whether ARCEP should impose other remedies on the dominant operator, for example, unbundled access to the fiber loop.
The Commission’s letter sent to ARCEP will be made available at:
http://circa.europa.eu/Public/irc/infso/ecctf/library?l=/commissionsdecisions&vm=detailed&sb=Title
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