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.

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Streaming and direct download: operators and search engines might have to filter and block

A procedure for interim relief is to compel ISPs and search engines to "blacklister" some direct download and streaming sites.

Several organizations representing the industry of cinema and video are drafting an injunction over 100 pages, assigning interim access providers to Internet and search engines to remove French Web sites streaming and download direct Allostreaming, Alloshowtv, Alloshare and Allomovies. This APC (Association of film producers), FNDF (National Federation of film distributors) and the SEVN (Union of the digital video Edition), which visibly preparing their offensive for some time and did not want wait the Hadopi make his report on the filtering of Streaming potential to move to the attack.

Thus, Orange, Free, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and others, but also Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc., are covered by the injunction and will be heard for a hearing in chambers on December 15. It is based on the L336-2 of the Code of the intellectual property section, introduced by the Hadopi law, that these organizations demand the implementation of measures to stop and prevent any copyright infringement, and taking into consideration the possibility of filtering and blocking of these sites. The recent decisions by justice in part similar cases suggest that these organizations are likely to be granted blocking.

Remains to be seen if ISPs and search engines will be used, and if yes how knowing that European law is evolving to a protected Net neutrality and that the European Commission would not operators are required to filter content on their networks. Follow closely, because if justice however gives reason to the complainants, they could follow by extending the list of affected sites...

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