Draft BEREC Guidelines on Very High Capacity Networks

Article 82 of the EECC provides that ’BEREC shall, after consulting stakeholders and in close cooperation with the European Commission, issue guidelines on the criteria a network has to fulfil in order to be considered a very high capacity network, in particular in terms of down- and uplink bandwidth, resilience, error-related parameters, and latency and its variation’. Article 82 also states that ‘BEREC shall update the guidelines by 31 December 2025, and regularly thereafter’.

The BEREC Guidelines on very high capacity networks (BoR (20) 165, paragraph 18) define four criteria and any network that meets at least one of these criteria is considered to be a very high capacity network. BEREC approved the first BEREC Guidelines on very high capacity networks in 2020; the objective of this project is to update criterion 3 based on data from fixed network operator, taking into account potential new technologies.