EU Market Review Update Oftel Forum July 2002

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EU Market Review UpdateOftel Forum July 2002

• Elaine Axby
• Project Director

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Agenda

• EU guidelines
• SMP
• Recommendation on relevant product and service
  markets
• Oftel review programme
• outline of the draft programme
• disputes during the review period

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SMP Guidelines

• final version now published on Cion website
• no substantive changes from the draft
• Oftel document published August
• replaces effective competition review
  guidelines of August 2000
• aids transparency

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Oftels document

• explanation of EU terminology
• additional Oftel criteria
• switching, consumers use of information
• pricing, profitability and active competition
• contextual indicators
• benchmarking, consumer satisfaction, previous
  anti-competitive behaviour

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Recommendation on relevant markets

• some good points
• markets cover those in FD Annex I
• possibility of further segmentation
• some potential problems
• timing!
• some detail not clear
• pre-judging what might be removed from the next
  list

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Oftel review programme

• 7 broad sector reviews
• currently scoping
• current regulation, broad policy issues
• dependencies on
• access guidelines
• EU Recommendation

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Programme

• Review
• Fixed wholesale call origination
• Wholesale narrowband Internet termination
• Fixed Call Termination

• Project Manager
• Selina Chadha
• Justin Moore
• Mike Galvin

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Cont...

• Review
• Retail Price Control
• Broadband Market
• Broadcasting
• Mobile

• Project Manager
• Alan Pridmore
• Tim Cross
• Anil Patel
• Elaine Axby

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Policy issues

• in line with current strategy
• remove regulation as competition develops
• not an automatic re-doing of current regulation
• nor a wholesale change
• evolution, not revolution

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Market reviews and disputes
Approaching new regime
Limited time of the current regime
Oftel needs stakeholders to recognise the
difficulties during the implementation period and
work with Oftel on practical solutions to
problems
Oftels resources
Stakeholders expectations
Compliance welcomes informal discussions about
the best way to approach Oftel with
potential disputes during the implementation
period
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Next steps

• EU Recommendation
• lobby for prompt final document
• publish outline Oftel programme on the Internet
• individual project/stakeholder meetings as
  necessary
• finalise approach to dispute resolution