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| SUR CETTE PAGE: Interconnection: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Infrastructure (6) Raw copper: (7) (8) (9) Service provision: (10) (11) (12) |
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SERVICES DE TÉLÉCOMMUNICATION: CONSEIL DU COMMERCE
DES SERVICES
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juin 1999 Director General Jorgen Abild Andersen, National Telecom Agency |
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“ All providers of public networks and services have the right and obligation to negotiate interconnection “ All providers with a significant market power (approx. 25%) shall meet all reasonable requests for interconnection Interconnection (2) Back to Top “ Interconnection terms must be objective, transparent and non-discriminatory “ Interconnection agreements are available to the public “ All providers with a significant market power shall keep separate accounts of different services Interconnection (3) Back to Top Following is furthermore applied on providers of public networks and services which have significant power within the total (fixed and mobile) market “ Interconnections charges must be based on LRAIC (transition period until a date to be decided by the Minister for Research) “ NTA can require verification that charges are actually calculated in accordance with the legislation “ NTA can decide a decrease of the charges if verified that the charges of similar Danish or foreign agreements are lower Interconnection (4) Back to Top The National Telecom Agency “ shall supervise all interconnection agreements “ may be asked to act as mediator “ may be asked to decide on interconnection terms “ shall decide whether interconnection terms are infringing competition law (based on binding opinion of competition authority) Interconnection (5) Back to Top The Danish law on interconnection covers “ physical and logical interconnection of telecommunications networks (switched interconnection) “ lease of infrastructure capacity, including leased lines and other infrastructure capabilities “ service provision, including special network access Interconnection — infrastructure (6) Back to Top Lease of infrastructure capacity covers among others “ any leased lines “ raw copper (unbundled local loop) “ raw fibre cable (dark fibre) Interconnection — raw copper (7) Back to Top The scope of the regulation for the newcomers “ may have the full end-user relation “ may provide any service to the end-user, such as XDSL “ may offer combined/integrated services without investing in raw copper Interconnection — raw copper (8) Back to Top The tariff for raw copper is calculated on the basis of historical costs - but only part of them The NTA has calculated the costs to 661 DDK (170 DM) per year without VAT According to the legislation, Tele Denmark is allowed a Profit of no less than 12 %. NTA suggested 12 Tele Denmark 26%. Politicians decided 12%. Interconnection — raw copper (9) Back to Top Annual rent of the unbundled local loop is 740 DKK without VAT The average telephone subscription in Denmark is 1027 DKK per year without VAT Insufficient rebalancing of the subscription fee could hamper the benefit of unbundled local loop Interconnection — service provision (10) Back to Top The Danish interconnection law covers “
service provision on fixed networks Interconnection — service provision (11) Back to Top The scope of the regulation for the newcomers “
may have the full end-user relation without investing in networks Interconnection — service provision (12) Back to Top The tariffs for service provision is based on the avoided cost model This means end-user tariffs minus 21%, but only in cases where the NTA has decided that it is important for competition reasons Source: NRAs and Commission (version of March 1999)
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