Commission faces ‘fistfight’ on broadband pricing

EurActiv writes about the competition between the telecommunication companies, saying that smaller telecommunications operators will have to pay their bigger rivals to use their networks.

The European Commission is due to release guidelines on how network operators should set wholesale access prices to copper line infrastructure to allow them to accommodate a costly roll-out of newer networks made of fibre-optic cables.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Website: Cable Europe http://www.europeansources.info/record/website-cable-europe/

European Commission: Draft Recommnedation on on regulated access to Next Generation Access Networks (NGA) http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/ecomm/doc/library/public_consult/nga/dr_recomm_nga.pdf

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