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Comreg Wholesale Market Review incl. CATV, FTTH/FTTC

  • 15-11-2016 12:30am
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    The Cush
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    Comreg has opened a consultation on Wholesale Local Access & Wholesale Central Access Market Analyses to examine the extent of competition within the these wholesale markets
    ComReg proposes wholesale broadband deregulation in cities
    Monday 14 November 2016 | 14:53 CET | News

    Irish regulator ComReg has proposed deregulating wholesale broadband in urban areas with sufficient competition. In its latest analysis of the wholesale fixed local and central access markets, the regulator defined three market segments, in which only two incumbent Eircom was found to have significant power.
    The two areas with SMP are the wholesale local access market, covering physical and virtual unbundling, and the regional wholesale central access market, which covers bitstream services over copper and fibre networks in non-urban areas. Comreg's draft decision proposes maintaining and enhancing the ex ante regulations on Eircom in these two markets, while removing the regulations in urban markets. The latter would be subject to a six-month sunset period after the decision is confirmed.

    The consultation is open for public comment until 30 January 2017.

    http://www.telecompaper.com/news/comreg-proposes-wholesale-broadband-deregulation-in-cities--1171643


    Comreg's definition of these markets under review
    (a) The Wholesale Local Access Market: Wholesale Local Access provided at a fixed location, which includes Local Loop Unbundling (LLU), Line Share and Virtual Unbundled Local Access (VULA) products (the ‘WLA Market’);

    (b) The Urban Wholesale Central Access Market: Wholesale Central Access for mass-market products provided at a fixed location, which includes Bitstream products provided over a copper only network and Bitstream products provided over a Fibre to the Cabinet (‘FTTC’)/Fibre to the Home (‘FTTH’) network (the ‘Urban WCA Market’). Within the Urban WCA Market ComReg also proposes to include the self-supply of retail broadband products provided over a Cable Access Television (‘CATV’) network as well as retail products supplied by SPs who do so using purchased upstream WLA inputs.

    (c) The Regional Wholesale Central Access Market: Wholesale Central Access for mass-market products provided at a fixed location, which includes Bitstream products provided over a copper only network and Bitstream products provided over a FTTC/FTTH (together ‘FTTx’) network (the ‘Regional WCA Market’). Within the Regional WCA Market ComReg also proposes to include retail broadband products provided by SPs who do so using purchased upstream WLA inputs.

    https://www.comreg.ie/publication/market-reviews-wholesale-local-access-wholesale-central-access/

    Two technical reports were published as part of the consultation
    - Technical feasibility of providing wholesale broadband access over a cable TV infrastructure (EC Market 3)
    - GPON and TWDM-GPON in the context of the wholesale local access market


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