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

BoR (11) 06b
� Is multi-cast technology available for alternative operators (e.g. as part of the regulated
product)?
No.
More specific questions regarding bitstream resulting from the Commission’s Draft NGA
Recommendation:
� Did your NRA apply exceptions (e.g., in certain geographic areas) from imposing
wholesale bitstream access on SMP providers? If so, elaborate on the reasoning of that
decision. The Draft NGA Recommendation foresees in Art. 37 the possibility of removing a
bitstream access obligation if access to the fibre loop, in a given geographic area, results
in effective competition.
Yes. See d) above. Bitstream access is not mandatory in competitive area.
4 Migration issues
� Is there a migration path envisaged from current to next generation access products?
What does it look like? To what extent is the NRA involved in setting up the migration
path?
The migration is already occurring and several thousands of costumers (from the
incumbent and also from alternative operators) have migrated to triple-play services based
on FTTH (and DOCSIS 3.0) without problems so far.
In any case, transparency and regulatory certainty should be ensured, as well as continuity
of the LLU based models over the short term (for as long as there is dominance in the
access market). Otherwise, the operators could see their previous expectations
disappointed and the evolution to NGA and actual competition in the market may be
undermined.
More specifically, ANACOM will proceed to the definition of procedures for the migration of
current wholesale products to any future NGA products, such as the unbundling of the
local sub-loop/fibre or of the bitstream type. It will also address the definition of the process
and effective migration of the end-customers of the operators which choose or which have
to migrate to a new wholesale product or location (e.g. in case of the decommissioning of
an MDF), seeking the minimization of the impact of network alterations on active services,
i.e., with minimal disruption to retail services.
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