registration document France Telecom 2009 - Orange.com

overview of the Group’s Business
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OVERVIEW OF BUSINESS
Slovakia
Mobile Communications
Key Events 2009
September 1
September 4
January 2010
Number portability: i mplementation of a new
decree.
Mobile call termination rates: t he European
Commission repeated its calls for TÚSR to bring
MTRs to more competitive levels in Slovakia.
Mobile call termination market: TÚSR
adopted a fi nal decision.
Number Portability
After discussions lasting longer than a year, a new decree on
number portability entered into force on September 1, 2009,
shortening both the mobile and fi xed portability process to fi ve
working days. Fixed portability was launched without a formal
contract with Slovak Telecom the same month, with a new
wholesale price (€9.90 ex VAT down from €49.79 ex VAT) and
some process details were agreed to later and effective as of
February 1, 2010.
Mobile Call Termination Rates
In January 2010, TÚSR adopted a fi nal decision designating
the three mobile network operators as having an SMP on
their respective networks without imposing cost orientation.
The price regulation is instead based on benchmarking
methodology, using the last known ERG simple average of EU
countries whic h implemented LRIC from July 2009. For the next
periods (February – January) the same methodology shall be
applied until long-run incremental costing will be available (not
before 2012). The 1.3 euro cent asymmetry shall be kept for
O2 until the end of the fi rst year of regulation (February 2010 –
January 2011).
Orange Slovensko
T-Mobile
O2 Slovensko
February 2010 – January 2011
6.35 euro cents
7.68 euro cents
Spectrum
■ TÚSR gathered information in December 2009 from the mobile
operators on their needs in terms of spectrum, possibilities
and expected timeframe with a view to implementing a
900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands refarming in summer 2011.
■ A new consultation has been announced for H1 2010 by
the Ministry of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications
regarding the refarming of the 790-862 MHz bands (digital
dividend).
■ Frequency blocks in the 2.6 GHz band have been provisionally
allocated to MMDS providers until December 2011. TÚSR
announced their intention to shorten this allocation and reallocate
the band in a public tender. Orange Slovensko does
not support such re-allocation before 2011/2012 due to the
lack until then of suffi cient mobile handsets and prefers any
allocation to happen only after the digital dividend allocation
will be known.
Fixed / Broadband Communications
Key Events 2009
January 22
February 2
May 14
June 4
September
Competition investigation: t he European
Commission antitrust carried out an inspection at
Slovak Telekom.
Compliance: t he European Commission sent
a reasoned opinion to Slovakia as the Slovak
Competition Act does not allow the application
of competition law and sector-specifi c regulation
in parallel.
Compliance: t he European Commission
expressed concerns that Slovakia does not
adequately protect the independence of its
telecoms regulatory authority.
Wholesale unbundled market analysis
(2 nd round ): TÚSR notifi ed the second cycle of
its analysis on the wholesale unbundled access
market to the European Commission.
Universal Service: Orange Slovensko and fi ve
alternative operators formally asked TÚSR to
suspend administrative proceedings.
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