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

d) Proposed Market 5 remedies:
� Reference offer (release date: 3 months after the SMP decision is issued).
BoR (11) 06b
� Access obligation. SMP operator should be obliged to establish and provide new
products for wholesale broadband access at least six months prior to when the SMP
operator r its subsidiary will launch its own retail services.
� Transparency obligation – information on geographical location, physical
characteristics, network architecture; publication of Key Performance Indicators.
� Non-discrimination obligations – inert alia: to offer identical terms and conditions in
comparable circumstances; to prevent the exchange of unauthorized information
between employees of the wholesale and retail part of SMP operator, ignoring safety
rules; to apply IT systems for ordering telecommunication access to ensure equal
access to information for all entities, and preventing discriminatory flow of
unauthorized information, applying Key Performance Indicators calculated separately
for the retail part of SMP operator and separately for each telecom operator.
e) Costs determined based on cost model (Art. 13 of AD).
f) Price control obligation – Art. 13 of AD (charges based on costs incurred).
g) Not applicable.
Below, some additional questions on bitstream:
� Please describe the different points of access available (e.g. at the broadband PoP, MDF)
and the layers (layer 2, 3 )
� DSLAM Level
� ATM Level (most popular in Poland)
� IP Managed
� IP Unmanaged
� Is quality differentiation possible and how is it implemented? Please mention the relevant
quality parameters and state whether guaranteed bandwidth is available.
Yes. Quality differentiation is possible in ATM Layer:
� CBR;
� VBR rt;
� VBR nrt;
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