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I strongly welcome the European Parliament's support for adding the new remedy of functional separation – which requires an incumbent operator to separate its network infrastructure from its services branch – to the toolbox of national regulators. This last-resort remedy has the capacity to rapidly improve competition in markets while maintaining incentives for investment in new networks, as shown in the UK where it has already been implemented. The Parliament's vote will contribute legal certainty to countries where functional separation is already under discussion, especially Sweden, Poland and Greece."

it has clearly rejected all calls for 'regulatory holidays',

27 November 2008: the Council could reach a first political agreement on the EU Telecoms Reform.

ARCEP's Market 4 decision of 25 July 2008 (page 76) indicates that it will consider extending fibre access obligations if the regulatory measures are insufficient to guarantee competition; the European Commission indicated in its letter dated 18 July 2008 (page 11) (which predates the adoption of the Law) that it encourages ARCEP to consider imposing other remedies in relation to market 4, in case the adopted law would not be sufficient to ensure effective competition in combination with duct access.

prevents landlords from refusing the installation and maintenance of fibre-optic lines for very high-bandwidth electronic communications,

In the Netherlands, with admittedly much more favourable demographics for access network roll-out, NGA will be practically ubiquitous

Mount Broadband is littered with the corpses of industry soothsayers who declared that there would be no consumer demand for higher bandwidth, because there were no foreseeable services that required it. It is difficult to believe that FTTH will not come to be necessary at some point in the future.

This stands in marked contrast to other Euro-incumbents, such as KPN and France Telecom, which recognise that FTTH is the end-game.