The technical impact of the unbundling process and regulatory action

Author

Ödling, Per ; Mayr, Bernhard ; Palm, Stephen

Author_Institution

Telecommun. Res. Center, Vienna, Austria

Volume

38

Issue

5

fYear

2000

fDate

5/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

74

Lastpage

80

Abstract

The process, referred to as unbundling, of allowing alternative operators to use the copper twisted wire pairs installed and owned by the local or national monopoly telephone operator is currently underway in many parts of the world. Not entirely without reason, most see this as a purely economical and legal matter, but it also has a surprisingly large impact on the engineering of broadband communication systems. This applies to the standardization and design phase as well as to the deployment phase. We survey the background of unbundling, and the goals and thinking of a regulator, and elaborate on the technical impact of unbundling. Examples are taken from VDSL standardization and the regulatory situation in various European countries

Keywords

broadband networks; digital subscriber lines; legislation; standardisation; systems engineering; twisted pair cables; European countries; VDSL standardization; alternative operators; broadband communication systems engineering; copper twisted wire pairs; deployment phase; design phase; economics; legal aspects; local telephone operator; national monopoly telephone operator; regulator; regulatory action; regulatory situation; standardization; technical impact; telecommunication market liberalisation; unbundling process; ANSI standards; Europe; Large Hadron Collider; Law; Legal factors; Licenses; Monopoly; Telecommunications; Telephony; Transformers, Regulators and Reactors - c57;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.841829

Filename

841829