Sweden’s telecoms regulator, the Post and Telecom Agency (Post & Telestyrelsen, PTS), is seeking views on a draft analysis of the market for local access to fibre-optic networks (’market 1’). The watchdog has found that the market can be sub-divided into two segments – one for multi-family buildings and another for single-family dwellings. It adds that in the market for fibre access to multi-family buildings, competition generally works ‘satisfactorily’ and there is no need to impose further regulations. In the single-family dwelling market, however, there are ‘often challenges when it comes to competition’ and ‘the imposition of obligations is justified’.
PTS says it has not yet investigated which network owners have significant market power (SMP), or which obligations may be relevant, and is seeking opinions on the draft market analysis by 23 September prior to any further action.
In February 2020 the EC rejected a move by the watchdog to implement a single national market regulation for wholesale local access to fibre-optic services, saying competitive conditions were not ‘sufficiently homogeneous across the entire country to conclude on one, national market’.