BoR (11) 06b Annex I to the BEREC Report Next Generation Access – Collection of factual information and new issues of NGA roll-out Country Case Studies February 2011 BoR (11) 06b Contents Austria 1 Belgium 12 Czech Republic 25 Denmark 34 Estonia 52 Finland 63 France 71 Germany 86 Greece 111 Hungary 119 Ireland 132 Italy 155 Latvia 170 Lithuania 178 Malta 187 The Netherlands 195 Norway 208 Poland 219 Portugal 236 Romania 258 Slovak Republic 268 Slovenia 276 Spain 290 Sweden 306 Switzerland 315 Turkey 330 United Kingdom 338 BoR (11) 06b Austria 1 Market developments 1.1 Incumbent 1.1.1 Actual roll-out Illustrate the current status of NGA roll-out in your country. Consider the following aspects - name of the operator and applied technology (e.g. FTTH GPON, FTTH P2P, FTTB, VDSL, Cable); Regarding NGA roll-out in Austria, the incumbent operator A1 Telekom Austria (new name following a merger of the incumbent‟s fixed arm Telekom Austria TA AG and mobile arm mobilkom Austria AG) announced plans to deploy VDSL2 technology in MDF locations allowing to provide broadband with a data rate of up to 30 MBit/s for 750.000 people (i.e. 15% of households) until 2012. Furthermore A1 Telekom Austria has announced four test areas for deploying enhanced NGA services. In the southern Austrian province of Carinthia the cities of Villach and (just recently) Klagenfurt, FTTC scenarios already have been deployed with services actively offered, while in two districts of Vienna FTTH / FTTB scenarios are currently about to be deployed. In Lower Austria, the small village of Siegenfeld also has seen an FTTC roll-out recently. In general, A1 Telekom Austria aims for FTTH GPON deployment in Vienna, only in the case of in-house cabling restrictions FTTB will be used instead. - current coverage of the network and number of NGA lines (passed/connected). Please provide figures as of June 30 2010; See above. - available retail services (e.g. product name, type of service (e.g. triple play), bandwidth, price level, price structure). Regarding the retail services currently available in Villach, Klagenfurt and Siegenfeld the so-called Giga Speed products allow data rates of up to 30 MBit/s. In Vienna, no product details have been announced so far, but data rates are expected to be up to 100 MBit/s for FTTH. 1 BoR (11) 06b 1.1.2 Announced roll-out plans Has the incumbent announced roll-out plans for NGA networks? For which period? When answering this question consider the aspects addressed mentioned in 1.1.1. Besides the above mentioned roll-out plans for VDSL2 from the central office and FTTC/FTTB/FTTH deployments in Villach, Klagenfurt, Siegenfeld and parts of Vienna, no other roll-out plans have been announced by A1 Telekom Austria so far. 1.2 Competitors (other telcos, cable) 1.2.1 Actual roll-out Illustrate the current status of NGA roll-out of competitors (e.g. telcos or cable operators) in your country. Consider the aspects addressed in 1.1.1. and add number of NGA lines (passed/connected). Please provide figures as of June 30 2010. UPC Austria is the largest cable operator in Austria, offering services based on their own CATV network infrastructure in selected cities. In addition, UPC has a large basis of unbundled lines since they acquired the former largest unbundling operator in Austria some years ago. UPC already migrated major parts of their CATV network to DOCSIS 3.0 technology allowing them to offer data rates of up to 100 MBit/s. The so-called Fibre Power services based on DOCSIS 3.0 are currently available in the cities of Vienna, Wiener Neustadt, Graz and Klagenfurt. Regarding deployment of VDSL2 technology in LLU served areas or deployment of FTTx scenarios there has been no official announcement from UPC Austria so far. However, UPC actively participates in the regulator-led industry working group mainly dealing with VDSL2 issues in the incumbent's access network. Tele2 is the largest operator offering broadband services based on LLU. Currently, Tele2 Austria offers services based on ADSL2+, but is currently involved in a VDSL2 field trial. There has been no official announcement from Tele2 Austria regarding migration to NGA or deployment of FTTx scenarios. Tele2 Austria also participates actively in the industry working group dealing with NGA issues. Silver Server is the third-largest operator offering broadband services based on LLU. Silver Server has just recently announced the deployment of VDSL2 services from the central office. In several areas local utility operators have already rolled out FTTH on a small scale basis. Examples are Wien Energie in Vienna, Liwest in Linz, IKB in Innsbruck, 24entertainment in Graz. Typically, the products offered are only available in certain small areas of a town or even only to residents of some buildings. 2 BoR (11) 06b Further deployment is driven by local initiatives starting early with the local deployment of fibre and extending their existing networks into business and residential premises. One such example is the town of Ried im Innkreis, where operator Infotech now has FTTH offers in its portfolio. Other examples are municipalities which deployed FTTH networks serviced by local ISPs (see http://www.arge-glasfaser.at/). 1.2.2 Announced roll-out plans Have competitors announced roll-out plans for NGA networks? For which period? When answering this question consider the aspects addressed mentioned in 1.1.1. No further roll-out plans have been announced so far by alternative operators. 2 Wholesale products to reach an access point Please note: the following questions relate to NGA wholesale access products as defined in ERG‟s/BEREC‟s NGA Reports only. Current generation wholesale access products are dealt with in the questionnaire of the Remedies PT monitoring ERG WLA/WBA CPs. The following sub-items should be answered for each of the following access products. Under each answer, provide information for the main operators providing these products, to the extent that information is available on access products provided by non-SMP providers: a) Available: on a voluntary/mandated basis (please provide figures (number of the respective wholesale products) as of June 30 2010) b) Product definition (main features, e.g. location of access point along the value chain). c) Included in Market X d) Current regulatory obligations (available since ..., also mention remedies still under discussion): transparency obligation e.g. requirements to provide information on the planned NGA network topology, according to Art. 5 FD, see also Art. 4 Draft NGA Recommendation; availability of reference offer; time period to establish a Reference Offers (see Draft NGA Recommendation Art. 15); non-discrimination obligations (e.g. provisions restricting launch of retail product until wholesale product is available, see Draft NGA Recommendation Art. 32); 3 BoR (11) 06b access obligations (different types of mandated products? Details of product variants) e) Costing (e.g. LRIC, CCA, costs determined based on cost model; cost allocation issues, cost of capital (specific to NGA, see ERG (09) 17 Ch. D.3.2 and Annex of the Draft NGA Rec.) f) Pricing (e.g. long-term pricing models such as upfront payments, volume discounts; price-cap; measures to ensure consistency of remedies in Markets 4 and 5) (see Art. 5 Draft NGA Rec.) g) Mention any other relevant SMP regulatory measure 2.1 Duct Access a) Duct Access Reference Offer to be available from December 2010 on a mandated basis due to market analysis measure from September 2010. This is only mandatory for the SMP operator A1 Telekom Austria. b) Product definition duct access only as an ancillary service to classical unbundling, duct access to be available in whole access network (not restricted to NGA areas), access points at major concentration points, i.e. MDF, street cabinet, remote access unit and in-house distribution frame). c) Not included in Market 4 (Physical Access to Network Infrastructure) but used as ancillary remedy for ULL. 2.2 Dark fibre a) Dark Fibre Reference Offer to be available from December 2010 on a mandated basis due to market analysis measure from September 2010. This is only mandatory for the SMP operator A1 Telekom Austria. b) Product definition dark fibre access to be available subsidiary to duct access in whole access network (not restricted to NGA areas), i.e. dark fibre has to be made available in the case of duct access not to be available or not to be usable from a commercial point of view, access points at major concentration points, i.e. MDF, street cabinet, remote access unit). 4 BoR (11) 06b c) Not included in Market 4 (Physical Access to Network Infrastructure) but used as ancillary remedy for ULL. 3 Access products available Please note: the following questions relate to NGA wholesale access products as defined in ERG‟s/BEREC‟s NGA Reports only. Current generation wholesale access products are dealt with in the questionnaire of the Remedies PT monitoring ERG WLA/WBA CPs. The following sub-items should be answered for each of the following access products: a) Available: on a voluntary/mandated basis (please provide figures (number of the respective access products) as of June 30 2010) b) Product definition (main features, e.g. location of access point along the value chain). c) Included in Market X d) Current regulatory obligations (available since.., also mention remedies still under discussion): transparency obligation e.g. requirements to provide information on the planned NGA network topology, according to Art. 5 FD, see also Art. 4 Draft NGA Recommendation; availability of reference offer; time period to establish a Reference Offers (see Draft NGA Recommendation Art. 15); non-discrimination obligations (e.g.