ADSL will continue to report to the historical operators...

Proposals from Brussels to encourage more rapid deployment of fibre do not fly in historic operators. Yet, their rents on the local loop should be used to modernize the network...

Last October, the European Commission was a seductive track for who would like to see ISPs accelerate the deployment of fiber optics: reduce their revenues on ADSL. By reducing the cost of access to local loops of incumbent operators who exploit the copper pair, Brussels intended thus force a way leading provider of market access to everything in to more quickly implement a fibre optic network more cost-effective. With an annuity diminished on ADSL, Orange - which affects €9 per line (and €8.50 from January 2012) the part other operators - would be for example encouraged to invest more visibly in the deployment of fibre.

But ultimately, this idea is - there is in would be doubted - from making unanimity among operators. Result, it is currently not possible to reduce the cost of access to the local loop. And while public consultations requested by the Commission have not yet started, European historical operators announce the color. "This project is an error (...)" "It is not this kind of measure which will want to do more operators that currently" explains ETNO to the computing world, association behind which the main European historical operators are grouped together. For them, it would finish to reduce the price of subscriptions to detail for individuals, and without these revenues, operators no longer have the means to invest in fiber as hard. Less pension, less money, less investment, such is the credo of ETNO.

Nowhere is mention of the profitability of the copper networks, deployment costs are amortized for many years, which does not prevent access to the local today loop still very expensive. Especially in France, for example, 50% of the annuities of France Telecom on the local loop are expected to be reinvested in the network, to modernise. While representing €4.25 per line. Not enough to fill the entire France of a fibre network, but what accelerate the installation of the infrastructure. According to Senator Hervé Maurey, whose proposals are repeated by ZDNet sister site, it would be about EUR 400 million per year on this provision.