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Austria Ends Regulation of Wholesale Broadband Markets

Austria’s Telekom Control Commission (TKK) has announced that Telekom Austria has promised to grant other interested providers
it has released the wholesale broadband markets from regulation, access to the network under the same conditions in the future.
with a view to accelerating fiber-optic expansion across the country. ‘The TKK’s decision is a milestone in the liberalization of the
Following extensive market research, the regulator has determined telecommunications markets. From now on, it will no longer be
that A1 Telekom Austria no longer has a dominant position in the requirements of the regulatory authority, but contracts under
the provision of consumer products in large parts of Austria and private law that will ensure broadband coverage for the whole of
would therefore not be subject to any regulation in this segment Austria and ensure competition – of course under the watchful eye
anyway. Complete deregulation ultimately became possible of the regulator,’ commented Klaus M. Steinmaurer, spokesman for
because A1 Telekom Austria has concluded private contracts with the TKK and Managing Director of the Telecommunications and
19 alternative providers for access to its network over the next Post department at the Regulatory Authority for Broadcasting and
five years at least. Overall, this currently covers around 80% of Telecommunications (RTR).
the demand for broadband wholesale products. Furthermore, A1

Anatel Approves TIM Brasil’s Proposed WholeSales Product Reference

The National Telecommunications Agency (Agencia Nacional de
Telecomunicacoes, Anatel) of Brazil, has approved TIM Brasil’s
proposed wholesale product reference (oferta de referencia de
produto de atacado, ORPA). The agency found no objections to
the proposal, which includes 5G and IoT access, and the decision
was signed off by competition superintendent Jose Borges on 26
September. The measure is one of the remedies applied in relation
to the takeover of Oi Movel by TIM Brasil and rivals Claro and Vivo.

MCMC Launches Review of Access Pricing

A public inquiry on a review of the Mandatory Standard on
Access Pricing (MSAP) has been launched by the Malaysian
Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), as it seeks
to determine cost-based prices for those services included in the
Access List Determination (ALD) for the period 2023 to 2025. With
the MCMC’s public inquiry paper setting out its preliminary views
on which facilities and services in the Access List should be subject
to price regulation, it is seeking feedback from interested parties
on several specific issues, including the regulator’s approach to
developing economic cost models for specific services, particularly
on use of the long run incremental cost (LRIC) methodology.
According to the watchdog, it has been working with licensees
since April 2022 to collect relevant data and to develop economic
cost models that it has used to calculate ‘appropriate’ cost-based
prices. Meanwhile, for the purposes of the public inquiry, the
Access List facilities and services have been classified into five
major categories, the MCMC confirmed, with those being: ‘fixed deadline of 21 November 2022 has been set for submissions to the
services’; ‘4G mobile services’; ‘5G mobile services’; ‘infrastructure public inquiry.
sharing’; and ‘digital terrestrial broadcasting multiplex service’. A

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