Public consultation on the draft BEREC Guidelines on very high capacity networks
During the 62nd BEREC plenary meeting (13-14 March 2025), the Board of Regulators has approved the draft BEREC Guidelines on very high capacity networks (BoR (25) 35) for public consultation. For your convenience, the track changes version of the updated BEREC Guidelines on very high capacity networks showing the update in comparison to the 2023 version of the document is also available under the above-mentioned link.
BEREC published the first version of the BoR (20) 165 BEREC Guidelines on very high capacity networks in October 2020 and determined that any network which fulfils one (or more) of four criteria is a very high capacity network. According to Art. 82 of the EECC, BEREC shall update the Guidelines by 31 December 2025. At the time of the adoption of the initial guidelines it was not yet possible to take 5G fully into account, as it had not yet reached mature deployment and significant penetration. Therefore in October 2023 BEREC updated criterion 4 (performance thresholds for wireless network) based on data collected from mobile network operators on 5G and published the second version of the BoR (23) 164 BEREC Guidelines on very high capacity networks.
The current publicly consulted version of the Guidelines reviews the performance thresholds values of criterion 3 originally defined in 2020. With this exercise, BEREC updates all aspects of the original Guidelines by the end of 2025, as mandated by the EECC. BEREC would like to call attention that the subject of this public consultation is the update of criterion three, but not the other three criteria, as they remain unchanged.
Interested parties are kindly asked to send their contributions to [email protected] no later than 30 April 2025 close of business. Contributions should be sent preferably in English and, in order to facilitate processing of the responses, the comments provided should clearly refer to the specific paragraphs of the document. After submitting the contribution, an acknowledgment email will be sent to the sender.
All stakeholders are strongly encouraged to submit their contributions as early as possible. Contributions received after the above-mentioned deadline will not be taken into account.
In accordance with the BEREC policy on public consultations, BEREC will publish all contributions and a summary of the contributions, respecting confidentiality requests. Any such requests should clearly indicate which information is considered confidential and be accompanied by a non-confidential version in case the contribution is partially deemed as confidential.