Category Archives: France

Update 5 August 2008: The 'Loi de modernisation de l'économie' was published in today's Journal Officiel. Last week, the French Parliament and the French regulatory authority ARCEP took major steps in defining a regulatory framework that aims at achieving widespread …

Last week, the French Parliament and the French regulatory authority ARCEP took major steps in defining a regulatory framework that aims at achieving widespread deployment of Fibre to the Home (FttH). This includes, among others, obligations on all operators to …

The French incumbent telecommunications operator, France Telecom, has today issued a press release in which it confirms that it will prepare a voluntary commercial offer for wholesale access to its ducts by the end of 2007. Details have not been …

Iliad S.A., the EuroNext quoted holding company which owns Free, the French alternative operator which pioneered triple-play services using its own flavour of ADSL2+, made a series of major announcements today, which deserve attention from a telecommunications regulatory perspective.   …

The French regulatory authority ARCEP has issued an eagerly awaited decision, resolving a dispute that arose between France Télécom (the fixed incumbent operator, initiator of the complaint) and Neuf Télécom (an infrastructure-based fixed alternative operator, utilising mainly unbundled local loops, …

Update 21 Nov 2005: Without awaiting the final outcome of the public consultation, ARCEP has issued two dispute resolution decisions, setting wholesale SMS termination charges at 4,3 eurocents/SMS, retroactive to 1 July 2005. The decisions were issued on 17 Nov 2005, …

The French Competition Council (Conseil de la concurrence) has today published its Advice on the draft market definition and market analysis conducted by the ART (Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications) relating to Market 15: “access and call origination on public …

The French regulatory authority ART has today published its conclusions concerning two hotly debated issues: Definition of an additional wholesale-level relevant broadband access market. Treatment of self-supply of wholesale broadband access by France Télécom. Visitors of the T-REGS website will …

The French regulatory authority ART has today published a consultation document addressing various possible short-term and long-term future evolutions of the numbering plan and of the associated number management rules. VoIP and emerging nomadic usage are addressed, but the document …

The French regulatory authority ART has today published several important documents in the context of the market analyses it is conducting relating to broadband access markets (these documents are discussed below). Perhaps more significantly, the ART has decided to launch …