Translation of "Local loop unbundling" in German

In February 2000, the Commission published a consultation document on local loop unbundling.

In the other Member States local loop unbundling remains at a very low level.

Effective local loop unbundling is key for the spread of electronic communications services.

However, the current assessment leaves no doubt that local loop unbundling is not developing fast enough.

However, care must be taken that the implementation of local loop unbundling does not result in disincentives for network investment.

Ofcom’s proposal will allow product differentiation and innovation similar to that possible through physical local loop unbundling.

That is sometimes obscured by all the battles we have about local loop unbundling, bit stream access and so on.

Following the result recently achieved with the adoption of the regulation on local loop unbundling, it is now time to find an initial solution to a situation in which any company operating on the European electronic communications market finds that it has to weave its way not only through the layers upon layers of directives and regulations issued over the years but also through a plethora of national regulatory authorities acting under extremely varied legislation according to a very wide range of criteria which the operator cannot even hope to predict, and it therefore finds itself in a situation of fragmentation and, at times, great legal uncertainty.

I certainly did not know when I took on the rapporteurship of something as obscure as local loop unbundling that it would be quite so controversial and so complicated as it has proved nor that our discussions would culminate in such nocturnal circumstances.

Community legislation does not explicitly require local loop unbundling, whereby competitors have full and exclusive use of the copper pair to the customer, but covers at least some forms of shared access to the local loop.

Bitstream access is generally considered to be an essential stepping stone for new entrants towards investment in full-scale roll-out of their network on the basis of local loop unbundling (first through “shared” and then through “full” unbundled access).

Broadband penetration varies considerably across Member States and is generally highest in those countries where viable infrastructure-based competition exists via cable and other alternative networks and via local loop unbundling.

Reference to specific cost accounting requirements relating for example to leased lines, local loop unbundling and interconnection is made under the relevant sections of the report.

Ensure access to widespread, world-class communications infrastructure and ensure significant reduction in the cost of using the internet (local loop unbundling)

The slow pace of local loop unbundling led regulators to focus on other types of wholesale products such as bitstream access19.

In view of these developments the markets for bitstream access and local loop unbundling should in the future not be analysed in isolation so as to ensure a coherent approach.

Because of the insufficient spread, ever since local loop unbundling started in Germany and still at the date of the decision, new entrants had no scope to compete with DT for fixed-line access to end consumers.

Therefore the wholesale price for local loop unbundling cannot always be compared only to the retail price for voice telephony in order to establish the risk of a price squeeze.

As a result, developments for example relating to rollout of local loop unbundling are patchy across the Member States.

Local loop unbundling has grown (73.7% of new entrants DSL lines, up from 69.2% in January 2009), mostly at the expense of resale, which shrunk from 12.9% of new entrants' DSL lines in January 2009 to 9.4% in January 2010.