BoR (11) 06b BEREC report NGA Country Cases - IRG

3.5 Enhanced Bitstream 1
BoR (11) 06b
The wholesale broadband market consists of the market for low quality wholesale broadband
services (sometimes referred to as consumer bitstream) and the market for high quality
broadband services (sometimes referred to as business bitstream). The overbooking-factor
defines low (> 1:20) and high quality services (1:20 < 1:1). KPN has SMP on these markets.
Access obligations apply nationally to copper and fibre access. Access is regulated at a
regional point of interconnection. There is no demand for local access, because operators who
rolled out to the local level offer WBA themselves based on local loop unbundling. There is no
obligation for KPN to offer WBA at a national point interconnection, because there is
competition on the regional-national backbone.
There is a transparency and reference offer and non-discrimination obligation (including a rule
to prevent margin squeeze) in place. Cost orientation is applied (EDC) only for high quality
WBA. For WBT-Low Quality no price regulation applies.
On April 13 2010 OPTA‟s leased lines market decision was destroyed in court. The court ruled
that OPTA had insufficiently motivated that the leased lines market consists of a market for
high capacity lines (>20 Mb) and low capacity lines (