Green light of the Antitrust to Fibercop.
The Guarantor Authority concluded the procedure relating to the infrastructure access agreements by accepting the commitments proposed by TIM, Fastweb, Tiscali and by the companies of the KKR fund.
This was announced in a note in which it is recalled that the investigation had started on 15 December 2020 due to the presence of numerous competition problems in the agreements relating to FiberCop.
Overall, the commitments accepted by the Authority are based on two pillars, which consist in reducing the barriers to customer acquisition, namely telecommunications operators, in the wholesale fixed telecommunications market, favoring full infrastructural competition and favoring infrastructure through the reduction of related costs and the identification of stringent deadlines and hedging objectives. As for the first pillar, the commitments make it possible to reduce the risks of foreclosure of the demand for wholesale telecommunication services by telecommunication operators, reducing the guaranteed minimums and the geographical scale of adhesion to the project (from national to municipal or sub- municipal) and introducing membership profiles to the FiberCop project based on long-term rights, without guaranteed minimums. On the investment front, TIM provided a “certain and defined” time schedule of the infrastructure plan and undertook to give, together with FiberCop, “information suitable for investment planning by alternative operators”. Furthermore, TIM will facilitate the infrastructure of alternative operators by offering them dark fiber in the primary network, thus reducing infrastructure costs and timing, explains the Antitrust Authority. Again from the point of view of infrastructure, Fastweb has undertaken to follow a path until 2026, in order to access FiberCop’s services as an operator effectively independent of TIM and Tiscali has modified and / or terminated some contracts that did not determine any infrastructure, while limiting the contestability of wholesale supply.
Source: Ansa
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