Remedies for Broadband Services

Abstract

This paper discusses and evaluates remedies for operators found to have significant market power in broadband services (taken here to be broadband wholesale access, unbundled local loops and leased lines) under the new European regulatory framework for electronic communications services. It is organised as follows, Section 1 describes the new regulatory framework. Section 2 discusses how the development of competition in broadband services might arise, identifies market failures likely to occur and then discusses how an optimal set of remedies might be found. Section 3 discusses remedies for wholesale broadband access; section 4 considers remedies for unbundled local loops; section 5 does the same for leased lines.