OUTLINE / MOTIVATION

Nowadays, incumbent operators are deploying GPON FTTH access network over substantial part of the countries in Europe, in a Point-to-Multipoint architecture (P2MP). This architecture is characteri-zed by a shared fiber from the Central Office (C.O.) to a certain location where, by means of splitters, in-dividual fibers carry the signal to/from every user. It is preferable for an open market situation, where the competition in prices and services is desirable and also enforced by local governments and administra-tions, to have different entry options to the market for the many alternative operators (entrants) which may come up and compete with the incumbent. For that reason, this study aims at considering different unbundling options for the Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) in order to provide multioperator access and consider the economical impact for the entrants to de-ploy such alternatives. The scope of this study primarily covers remedies to be imposed upon operators designated with Sig-nificant Market Power (SMP) on the basis of a mar-ket analysis procedure carried out under Article 16 of Directive 2002/21/EC [EUC02a]. However, where it is justified on the grounds that duplication of in-frastructure is economically inefficient or physically impracticable, the regulator may also impose obli-gations of reciprocal sharing of facilities on under-takings operating an electronic communications net-work in accordance with Article 12 of that Directive which would be appropriate to overcome bottlenecks in the civil engineering infrastructure and termina-ting segments. This work deals with the following issues: • Alternatives for LLU: although there are se-veral methods, the next three have been considered as they are the most feasible in terms of cost, scalabi-lity and upgradeability, in the number of clients and operators. [ALC10a] [FCE11c] [ISD09a] [MAS09a