FTTH: proposte di regole in UK

Ofcom in UK pubblica i principi per stimolare lo sviluppo delle reti in fibra

Stimulus to super-fast broadband | Ofcom. nel documento PDF si legge

1. Pricing freedom. Communication providers such as BT will have the freedom to price wholesale super-fast broadband products themselves without any regulatory intervention. This will allow investors to make an appropriate return on their investment, based on the risk they are taking but pricing at a level that the market will bear, given the ready availability of alternative broadband services.
2. Risk reflective rate of return. In the event of further competition emerging upstream – by companies offering super-fast broadband through passive access – investors will have the opportunity to earn a rate of return that genuinely reflects their costs and the associated level of risk.
3. Efficient networks. Ensuring that inefficiencies are not built into the deployment of super-fast broadband that could result in a barrier to investment. For example, ensuring that two sets of engineers are not required to service the same request and avoiding excessive complexity of business systems needed to support the network.
4. Wholesale access for all. Ofcom will support new active fibre-based wholesale products offered by BT. This will require Openreach to offer fibre-based broadband services to other providers – including BT Retail – on equal terms and without favour.
5. Encouraging future competition. Allowing companies to invest alongside BT when networks are built, or ensuring that new infrastructure will support further future competitive investment should demand arise.

1) prezzi all'ingrosso non regolamentati
2) prezzi che consentano la remunerazione del rischio (vedi sotto)
3) requisiti regolamentari che non impongano duplicazioni e inefficienze
4) bitstream su fibra in Openreach
5) condivisione degli investimenti

bitstream in openreach e' una ottima cosa, oggi e' in BT Retail...

Vogliono continuare a tentare di lasciare la possibilita' di competizione infrastrutturale, "ma anche" di condivisione degli investimenti. Il secondo puo' funzionare, per il primo, con che soldi ?

We continue to favour competition at the deepest level possible wherever this is both  effective and sustainable. At present there appears to be limited demand from communications providers for passive products. We believe, however, that the option  to develop services based on passive inputs should be retained: we are therefore  keen to promote passive access wherever this is economic and sustainable as this  may ultimately be an important means of meetings consumers needs. We are  particularly interested in innovative models of passive competition which may make it  more economic than current sub-loop unbundling, including coordinated investment  at the point of deployment, for example co-location. We will continue to work with  industry to understand demand and approaches to passive competition. 

Anche se i prezzi all'ingrosso non sono regolamentati, verranno sorvegliati per correggere pratiche anticompetitive. in UK si potrebbe anche credere, date le dotazioni, risorse ed efficienza del regolatore

We continue to believe that these approaches to wholesale pricing are appropriate  and will support investment and competition. In either case, the pricing of products  must allow opportunities to recover costs and earn a reasonable rate of return on investments. 
However, while companies may have freedom to set specific price levels, we will  continue to monitor pricing for behaviour that suggests anticompetitive motives or  effects. This will include the relative levels of prices or other activities that may be undertaken to undermine fair competition.

e' solo una proposta, per adesso; sono principi  e molti dettagli non mi paiono ancora chiarissimi... vedremo..