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

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BoR (11) 06b
e) The costing methodology is the same as the one adopted at the end of 2005 for the
copper local loop, which is current cost accounting: civil engineering is indeed part of the
copper local loop.
f) Cost orientation obligation has been imposed to France Télécom.
ARCEP has adopted a decision setting the economic terms governing access to France
Telecom ducts on the November 9th 2010.
� an initial sharing of the civil engineering costs between copper and FttH based on the
number of access per technology,
� a pricing of the ducts so as to enable France Télécom to recover the part of the civil
engineering costs dedicated to FttH,
� a pricing which differentiates the position of the ducts (between the MDF and the
mutualisation point or between the mutualisation point and the homes) and whether
the optical networks rolled out is mutualised or not, so as to take better account of the
needs that are specific to the most sparsely populated areas of the country.
g) This decision, which France Telecom will be implementing at the start of 2011, will result
in a significant decrease in the price that alternative operators are charged to access
France Telecom ducts, which will enable them to deploy optical fibre networks under
favourable conditions - as much in high density areas as rural ones.
In high density areas, volume-based pricing will allow operators to roll-out parallel
networks and so compete with one another, while also encouraging a reasonable use of
the available space.
In more sparsely populated parts of the country, the flat-rate pricing scheme applied to
access encourages operators to share resources and offers a predictable system despite
the disparities in available civil engineering resources. This system could be extended to
include overhead infrastructure, as the Commission invited the Authority to do in its
remarks, and in accordance with the draft market 4 analysis decision.
Poles and masts: extension of duct access obligation.
This summer, ARCEP has submitted to public consultation a draft decision for the next
market 4 analysis, which will be adopted at the beginning of 2011.
In its draft decision, ARCEP proposes to extend the perimeter of the relevant market to
access to poles and masts, so as to mandate France Télécom to give access to its poles
and masts for fibre roll- out.
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