Europe’s policy framework for investment in high-speed broadband should ensure...
Europe’s policy framework for investment in high-speed broadband should ensure equal opportunities for challenger investors, chief financial officers from the European Competitive Telecommunications Association told EU Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes Monday. But policies should preserve the investments alternative operators…
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have made since they entered the market and their ability to act as a catalyst for competitive consumer offers and funding of super-fast broadband networks, it said. The European Commission, which is working on rules to last until 2020, must recognize that new players have been the main drivers of fiber investment and the take-up of advanced broadband by consumers, said ECTA Chairman Tom Ruhan. More than 10 years after the telecom sector was liberalized, alternative operators are still seriously affected by discrimination in access conditions and pricing abuses from dominant operators, ECTA said. They're forced to spend large amounts of their cash flows on overpriced access charges to legacy copper networks, making it hard to compete and invest, it said. ECTA urged Kroes to tighten nondiscrimination rules guaranteeing equivalent inputs at the wholesale level and preventing price abuses at the wholesale and retail levels.