A New Regulatory Policy for FTTx-Based Next-Generation Access Networks
Abstract
This article critically assesses the latest European Commission policies in relation to next-generation access investment that put focus on regulated prices and relaxing of wholesale access obligations. Pointing at the vital socio-legal and economic arguments, it further challenges the assumptions of the current EU regulatory framework and calls for a more contractual utility-based model of regulation instead of the current system that overly relies on market-driven infrastructure-based competition.
- Publication:
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Fiber and Integrated Optics
- Pub Date:
- July 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1080/01468030.2013.808721
- Bibcode:
- 2013FiIO...32..280M
- Keywords:
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- European Commission;
- European Union;
- FTTx;
- local loop unbundling;
- next-generation access;
- regulation;
- telecommunications law;
- telecommunications policy;
- telecommunications pricing;
- wholesale access