Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

[France]Backbone access

Options
  • 27-07-2005 9:23pm
    #1
    eircomtribunal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭


    The European Commission has approved regulatory measures giving competing operators access to the incumbent's backbone. See [url=networkhttp://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/05/1012&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en]here[/url]
    Commission authorises for one year “broadband” regulation in France as step towards more competition

    France Télécom will be required to provide, for a transitional period, market players with wholesale nationwide high-speed access to France’s telecoms network. This regulatory measure, proposed by the French national regulatory authority for electronic communications, ARCEP, was authorised today by the European Commission. The measure will apply until competing network operators have built a sufficiently wide backbone network and a large enough customer base to enable them to invest further in regional high-speed (“broadband”) services, such as access to the web and services connecting subscribers’ premises to the network (“local loops”[1]). The Commission asked ARCEP to review this market again within a year to fully take account of new market developments which could enhance competition in the wholesale nationwide broadband market in France.
    P.


Comments

  • Options
    #2
    paulm17781
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,858 ✭✭✭paulm17781


    France's broadband is already good and now they are doing this to make it better!!! One day... :rolleyes:


  • Options
    #3
    eircomtribunal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭eircomtribunal


    Not directly related to the above; from Dave Burstein's latest dsl newsletter (not on the dslprime.com website yet, but from there one can subscribe to Dave's informative newsletter):
    Reaching 97% in France
    FT, Free.fr using ADSL2 reach mode
    FT promised 95% by yearend 2005, and now raises that projection to 97%, extending 512K service beyond 18,000 feet. Reach mode was included in the ADSL2 spec mostly for the U.S., where 10M or more are at the margin of what's servable with ordinary ADSL2. Only about 300K homes in France are expected to be affected, because loops are shorter. By emphasizing the lower frequencies, customers further from the DSLAM can be served, as Paradyne has been proving for years. Free.fr announced first, and FT replied. Speed is painfully slow, but the French government is insisting on the coverage.
    That "long distance" ADSL2 mode could be an important feature not only for the long US loops...
    P.


Advertisement