Notice for launch of public consultations on draft BEREC Common Position on Layer 2 Wholesale Access Products

In recent years, several incumbent operators rolled out NGA networks in order to provide higher bandwidths to end users. This leads to situations in which access to physical infrastructure was not considered sufficient to ensure effective competition at the retail level. Therefore, several NRAs have imposed access to (active) Layer 2 (Ethernet) wholesale access products (L2 WAP) as a remedy on the wholesale local access market (market 4) and/or the wholesale broadband access market (market 5).

In some cases L2 WAP on the wholesale broadband access market were already imposed before the NGA rollout started. With the draft Common Position on L2 WAP BEREC goes one step further and defines Common Positions for L2 WAP imposed on the wholesale local access market (market 3a) and L2 WAP imposed on the wholesale central access market (market 3b). Common Positions are defined for the conditions for the imposition of L2 WAP, prices and technical characteristics.

The document is published for public consultation, which runs from Monday 6 June to Friday 1 July 2016.
All interested parties are invited to send their contributions by 1 July 2016 to e-mail: [email protected], preferably in English in order to speed up their processing.