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Press Update. The Development of high-speed Internet in France ART’s opinion on France Télécom IP/ADSL offers 18 July 2002. The development of the high-speed market in Europe. Rapid development: from 5.6 million high-speed subscribers in Europe in late 2001 to 9.5 million at end 2002*
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Press Update The Development of high-speed Internet in France ART’s opinion on France Télécom IP/ADSL offers 18 July 2002
The development of the high-speed market in Europe • Rapid development: from 5.6 million high-speed subscribers in Europe in late 2001 to 9.5 million at end 2002* • The price of network access is a critical factor for market development *source: CMA consulting
The high-speed Internet value chain Collection and transport Consumer Access ISP France Télécom Competing operators France Télécom Competing operators Wanadoo Competing ISPs Option 1 Full unbundled access Shared access Option 3 Option 5 Effective competition must be present along the entire value chain
ART’s goals for the development of ADSL in France • Effective competition along the entire value chain • Access: the decision dated 16 April 2002 on the pricing and operational conditions of unbundling (full unbundled access and shared access: option 1) • Collection and transport: the need for an option 3 offer, to allow operators to complete deployment for unbundling and to compete with France Télécom’s option 5 offers (IP/ADSL) • Internetservice: making ISPs’ ADSL offers viable, while ensuring that operators benefit from viable market entry conditions, via unbundling and option 3
What ART is doing (1) • Access: the decision of 16 April 2002 and France Télécom’s reference offer of June 2002 for unbundling (option 1): • Fees that are among the lowest in Europe: • Collocation conditions that have been simplified considerably
What ART is doing (2) • Option 5: the pricing opinion of 18 July 2002 Major improvements in the conditions of option 5 for ISPs, to benefit market development
What ART is doing (3) • Option 3: changes made by France Télécom in early July, compatible with IP/ADSL prices • Two offers now available: • Functional improvements, in particular the elimination of pre-reservation of access, which allows operators to order access by unit • Improvements still to be made: access to the lower level (1st cross connect)
Conclusion • A measure that is highly beneficial to the dynamic development of the market for all players: • ISPs: significantly improved economic conditions, extension of the range of offered services • operators: viable entry conditions on the market, to complement unbundling • For consumers: competition that will encourage a decline in prices (cf. current market price: €45 VAT included, for a 512 kbits/s offer); prices will drop as a result of market competition • Implementation as of 15 October 2002 to ensure that France Télécom and competing operators are able to launch their offers to ISPs at the same time