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Link to this report (PDF Document, 348Kb)
10/09/2003
60 pages
Short abstract:
A number of OECD countries have stressed the economic and social importance of developing highspeed (broadband) Internet infrastructures and ensuring rapid growth in their subscriber base. Broadband has been viewed as important from the perspective of economic growth and productivity, and provides one of the key foundations for the development of a knowledge-based economy.
Following their existing frameworks for the creation of open competitive telecommunications markets and their WTO commitments, most OECD governments have based their policies for expanding broadband infrastructures and services on the development of competition based on a framework which ensures fair and non-discriminatory conditions of access to network resources and unrestricted competition for provision of services. Building on traditional regulatory telecommunication frameworks, many regulators have in recent years expanded these frameworks to ensure that new facility-based entrants and Internet service providers can compete with incumbents in offering broadband access and services. A number of OECD countries have over the last several years taken a major regulatory initiative by requiring the incumbent facility-based operators to offer local loop unbundling (LLU) to new access seekers.
Table of contents :
Foreword
Summary and conclusions
I. Local loop unbundling in OECD countries
1.1. Overview of local loop unbundling
1.2 Typology of LLU
1.3 Technical limitations on LLU
1.4 Implementation of LLU
II. The impact of local loop unbundling
2.1 Impact on prices
2.2 Costs of LLU
III. Benchmarking oecd countries
3.1 Implementation of LLU
3.2 The deployment of LLU
3.3 Collocation
3.4 Pricing
Appendix
Box 1. Bow Wave Process in the UK
Box 2. Collocation space allocation system in Australia
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