Paris, 18 November 2010
On 9 November 2010, ARCEP adopted a decision setting the economic terms governing access to France Telecom ducts
This decision, which France Telecom will be implementing at the start of 2011, will result in a significant decrease in the price that alternative operators are charged to access France Telecom ducts, which will enable them to deploy optical fibre networks under favourable conditions - as much in high density areas as rural ones.
In high density areas, volume-based pricing will allow operators to roll out parallel networks and so compete with one another, while also encouraging a reasonable use of the available space. In more sparsely populated parts of the country, the flat-rate pricing scheme applied to access encourages operators to share resources and offers a predictable system despite the disparities in available civil engineering resources. This system could be extended to include overhead infrastructure, as the Commission invited the Authority to do in its remarks, and in accordance with the draft market analysis decision that was submitted to public consultation from 27 July to 30 September 2010.
Linked documents
ARCEP Decision No. 2010-1211 (pdf - 255KB) dated 9 November 2010, defining the economic terms governing access to France Telecom local loop civil engineering duct infrastructure
European Commission remarks (pdf - 35KB) (pdf - )
Stakeholders' responses to the public consultation which ran from 1 October to 2 November 2010 (zip - 134KB) (zip - )
Reminder of previous stages
- The public consultation which ran from 17 December 2009 to 15 February 2010
The public consultation (pdf - 754KB) (pdf - )
Stakeholders' responses (zip - 2.05MB) (zip - )
- The public consultation which ran from 20 April 2010 to 27 May 2010
The public consultation (pdf - 344KB)(pdf - )
Stakeholders' responses (zip - 1.57MB) (zip - )
- The public consultation which ran from 27 July to 15 September 2010
The public consultation on the draft decision (pdf - 226KB) (pdf - )
Stakeholders' responses (zip - 784KB) (zip - )