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Incumbent telcos losing grip on EU broadband
News As the EU gets ever more broadband-enabled, the incumbent telcos are losing their grip on Europe's fat pipes. The Commission's report said: "The UK (with 19.0 percentage points difference between the market share of the incumbent excluding and...
[December 2, 2008, 8:50]
Incumbent telcos accused of plotting against VoIP
Talkback It is ludicrous that the existing analogue network providers should have so much power to prevent innovative communications solutions, which would see the cost of calls drop to near nothing. You only have to look to FRANCE typically a country which...
[November 19, 2004, 9:12]
Incumbent telcos accused of plotting against VoIP
News Neil Anderson, senior director of services at telecom's testing firm Spirent, acknowledged that established telcos have big concerns about losing revenue to IP services, but he doesn´t think this will matter too much.
[October 8, 2004, 10:55]
Broadband growth sees incumbent telcos under fire
News The UK and the Netherlands are the least attached to their historic telcos, however, with BT holding onto just 25 percent and KPN taking 44 percent. In the next few years, broadband will become the norm rather than the exception for Europeans...
[January 21, 2005, 15:05]
EC threatens more legal action over broadband
News The European Commission has threatened to widen its legal action against Europe's incumbent telcos over the failure of local-loop unbundling. He is concerned about claims that incumbent telcos have been obstructing the process to ensure their...
[July 8, 2002, 16:14]
EC to investigate broadband rollouts
News The European Commission has launched an investigation into the way incumbent telcos are opening up their exchanges to other operators in the light of complaints about the process. Local loop unbundling -- as the process is called -- has long been...
[March 6, 2001, 9:09]
Telcos battle to control community wireless
News Pennsylvania state governor Edward Rendell approved the law on Wednesday morning, after the proposal giving incumbent telcos the right to block community telecoms networks in the state was watered down.
[December 1, 2004, 14:50]
BT heading for monopoly in broadband
News Unbundling the local loop is the latest attempt by governments and regulators across Europe to introduce competition in the broadband Internet arena, following years of monopoly in voice services from incumbent telcos.
[January 29, 2001, 15:23]
More calls for BT's break-up
News The report says that European incumbent telcos like Deutsche Telekom and France Télécom must restructure along three horizontal lines of business -- networks, innovation, and retail -- to overcome their fundamental innovation, revenue, and...
[September 17, 2002, 13:24]
IDC Forum: Mobiles will kill Wintel
News Supporting Gilder's predictions and calls for change, representatives from network providers Lucent and Nortel urged the incumbent European telcos to modernise their networks quickly. Oscar Cicchetti, network director of Telecom Italia, Italy's...
[March 21, 2000, 16:28]
BT's next-generation consumer offering: does BT have the answer?
News Like all incumbent telcos, BT is still a long way from having all the answers. An incumbent has some big advantages in the future market for converged communications and entertainment services: brand strength, strong customer relationships, and an...
[December 22, 2005, 11:30]
Skype 'to seriously cut into telcos' profitability'
News Popular voice-over-IP application Skype is going to rob revenues from incumbent telcos as they're forced to give away voice services, according to a recent study by market researcher Evalueserve. European telcos are particularly vulnerable to Skype...
[January 10, 2005, 16:45]
BT's monopoly days are numbered
News The legal framework governing unbundling of the local loop gets teeth Tuesday as the EC moves to ensure all incumbent European telcos fall into step with European timetables. Although most experts agree the EC -- which has pushed the telecoms...
[December 5, 2000, 10:04]
BT and Oftel baffled as unbundling fails to attract
News Unbundling of the local loop is the cornerstone of the European Union's strategy to free telephone lines from the grip of incumbent telcos. Oftel has been forced to call an extraordinary meeting between BT and other telcos Thursday as orders for...
[January 17, 2001, 11:36]
EC to host hearing on the future of telecoms
News At the Lisbon summit in March for example, heads of state signed an agreement to accelerate unbundling of local loops -- where incumbent telcos must hand over parts of their network to competitors. The hearing -- which runs over two days -- will...
[May 9, 2000, 13:35]
Rural broadband conference sunk by funding squeeze
News This country and some others in the EU with incumbent 'copper' telcos risk playing broadband second fiddle for years to come. Just a couple of years ago, politicians and telcos appeared to be very keen to learn from rural campaigners.
[November 21, 2005, 10:30]
Oftel speeds up unbundling plans
News Unbundling is part of the European Union's strategy to free telephone lines from the grip of incumbent telcos such as BT, and Oftel has in the past been criticised for allowing the UK to fall behind the scheduled timetable.
[January 18, 2001, 15:34]
Broadband backlash building for BT
News BT, like other European and US incumbent telcos, is in the process of giving competitors access to the last mile of telephone wiring connecting homes and businesses to the telephone network. Without access to the local loop, competing telcos have...
[September 25, 2000, 8:28]
Easynet vows to unbundle more of Britain
News It was intended to break the stranglehold that Europe's incumbent telcos enjoyed over their national markets in the 1990s, but in practice few exchanges have been opened up. LLU forces incumbent telecoms operators -- BT, in the UK -- to open up...
[January 12, 2004, 16:35]
Ofcom warns on tighter Internet regulation
News It was intended to break the stranglehold that Europe's incumbent telcos enjoyed over their national markets in the 1990s, but in practice few exchanges have been opened up. LLU forces incumbent telecoms operators -- BT, in the UK -- to open up...
[February 20, 2004, 7:40]
