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The analysis procedure has already been completed for some markets:
Resolution 731/09/CONS, “Identification of the regulatory obligations which must be met by
companies that hold significant market power in fixed network access markets (markets 1, 4
and 5 among those identified by recommendation 2007/879/CE)”; public consultation followed in
accordance with Resolution 525/09/CONS.
The resolution in question confirms the obligations which must be met by Telecom Italia in regards to:
• price control with the 3-year price planning mechanism (network cap) for unbundled access services
(market 4), wholesale virtual access services (market 5) and for WLR services and the relative accessory
services;
• guaranteeing the replicability by an efficient competitor (introducing the BU LRIC accounting model) of
retail services supplied by Telecom Italia and therefore the need to subject said proposals to the price
test in order to verify its replicability, with the obligation of informing the Authority of new retail offers
with 30 days notice with respect to their sale;
• Physical Access: providing access to its infrastructures for the laying of data transmission means and
installation of equipment for radio bridges and the obligation of providing access to the Dark Fibre;
• Virtual Access: providing virtual access to NGA networks.
At the same time, it provides for the revocation of:
• the control of the maximum prices for the services of access to the public telephone network from a
fixed location offered to residential and non-residential customers, imposed on Telecom Italia pursuant
to article 10 of resolution 33/06/CONS;
Resolution 2/10/CONS “Market of wholesale supply of terminating segments of leased lines (market
6) of the recommendation of 2007/879/EC) and market of wholesale supply of trunk segments of
leased lines (market 14 of the recommendation of the EURpean Commission no. 2003/311/EC):
market identification and analysis, assessment of the existence of significant market power for
companies operating in said market and the identification of any regulatory obligations”; this closed
the analysis commenced under resolution 184/08/CONS confirming the obligations resting with Telecom
Italia in relation to:
• the terminating segments of leased line market for the connection between a point of termination of
an alternative operator at a Telecom Italia node and a user site (Market A);
At the same time, obligations regarding the following were cancelled:
• trunk segments of leased lines market, (given that the market is not susceptible to ex ante regulation);
• the terminating segments of leased line market for the connection between a point of termination of an
alternative operator at a Telecom Italia node and a BTS of a mobile network operator (Market B);
In addition, obligations resting with Telecom Italia in relation to the following were cancelled:
• Retail market for low bandwidth leased lines (Market 7 among those identified by Recommendation
of the European Commission no. 2003/311/EC), procedure opened by resolution 183/08/CONS and
closed with resolution 707/09/CONS);
• Markets of international telephone services available to the public and provided from a fixed location,
for residential and non-residential customers (markets nos. 4 and 6 of the recommendation of the
EURpean Commission no. 2003/311/EC) procedure opened by resolution 145/08/CONS and closed
with resolution 578/09/CONS.
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