Oh no you don't. EU tells Germany no on DT network

damien

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2025103,00.html

Germany appears determined to pass a new telecommunications law that critics say would give Deutsche Telekom a monopoly over broadband connections. The EU has threatened legal action.

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Deutsche Telekom has argued that it can't build the fiber optics network without assurances that the investment will be worthwhile for the company. The new network is supposed to offer high-speed connections of up to 50 megabits per second in 50 German cities.

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A spokesman for Deutsche Telekom said that Reding's view of the German market was "screwy," Reuters reported. He added that when it comes to broadband range, there's more competition in Germany than anywhere else in Europe.



Reding said Germany has far fewer broadband connections per capita than many other EU countries for which reason the government should encourage more competition.

This surely has wide-ranging implications for anyone else that wants to build a fibre network in the EU? It seems unlike the US where fibre monopolies are allowed, the EU will say no.

lucernarian

You mean "unlike the US where fibre monopolies are allowed"?

I hope the EU does not back down, though I fail to see how competition for fibre can work. It would be a different process to the highly centralised LLU with copper.

damien

Fixed fckup.