Incumbents own Europe's DSL market

dahamsta

The Register

Despite a 20% sequential rise in digital subscriber line (DSL) installation in the last quarter, Europe's new carriers have warned again that incumbent operators are on course to take a stranglehold on the emerging market.

Publishing its latest "DSL Scorecard", the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA) yesterday noted that 90% of DSL lines in Germany and France are still retailed by the incumbents, and blamed Europe's national telecoms regulators for failing to do enough to enforce local loop unbundling (LLU) laws.

At face value, ECTA's DSL Scorecard at least suggests that Europe's lethargic adoption of broadband services is starting to acquire a sense of urgency. Of the almost 200 million telephones installed in European Union countries, more than 6 million are now converted to DSL, compared with 2.7 million in October last year. However, ECTA's point is that virtually all of this growth is coming from incumbent operators, which still dominate the retail as well as the wholesale DSL market in all European countries.

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MDR

The ECTA now confirms all figures for Ireland with Ireland Offline before publication ... so if you think the figures are wrong point the finger of blame at my good self ... :eek:

MDR

Check out the figures here http://www.ectaportal.com/regulatory/dsl_jun02.html

Lemming

Ireland:

MDF[1] offering ULL 30/09/01 : 1,100


[1] Irish regulator mentions the availability as 'theoretical'

:rolleyes:


[note]
MDF = Main Distribution Frame