By "edges" I mean "products" for the most part, products offered to consumers and products available to other operators.
Way back regulation was technical. Then it became more economics based - all the discussion about markets and SMP (significant market power) - and so the emphasis on products. We still have regulation involving shared technical resources, whether spectrum or ducts or masts. But we have had push-back, at least in spirit, on CPE from the days following the Terminal Equipment Directive. And also more recently on local loop unbundling - because fibre is so different to copper? What I sense is that now they leaning towards getting deeper inside networks - and on the internet side and not on the specialised side. This is a good thing or a bad thing? i would hope people talk about it. I wonder though if all those people who wanted network neutrality will be happy with how it will be enforced in detail. From a few years ago: http://www.diplomacy.edu/blog/network-neutrality-law-–-step-forwards-or-step-backwards By the way many people, even those who have questions about BEREC, seem to think their local regulator is actually quite good on all this. So I wonder where the gap is. Anyway I am trying not to "do the analysis". I am trying encourage people to read at least some of the BEREC material - there is lots! - so they can discuss it here / make their own mind up. Gordon On 20 May, 2014, at 14:36, Wout de Natris <[email protected]> wrote: > Gordon, > > Weren't regulators in telecoms in the late 90s meant to go in straight > through the front door and break open the market? (Where necessary.) Make > interconnection and special access possible by forcing access and setting > prices, etc.? In those days I was not under the impression to be working on > "the edges". > > What I get from your analyses, the main point BEREC's stating, is not so far > beside what happened in the late 90s, at least in NL. New developments should > be supported, but not through harming other/traditional services. And isn't > that what the concern is about? > > Wout
