Abstract
At the end of 2008 Italy had 22.6 million fixed lines. Telecom Italia (TI),
the local incumbent, still dominates the market for fixed telecoms despite
facing increasing competition in the access market.
Table of Contents
- Overview
- Fixed market overview
- Mobile market overview
- Broadband market overview
- Next-generation access and network
- National regulatory authority
- Key legislation and regulation
- 3G licences
- WiMAX licences
- Retail regulation
- The retail market
- Retail access market
- Wholesale line rental (WLR)
- Local and national retail calls
- Price caps on fixed retail and fixed-to-mobile retention
- Retail international markets
- Retail leased lines
- Wholesale fixed regulation
- Narrowband voice interconnection
- Services subject to regulation
- Cost model for RIO
- Procedure for setting and reviewing charges
- Network cap
- Wholesale access
- Local loop unbundling (LLU)
- Fixed termination charges
- Wholesale broadband services
- Bitstream access
- Network separation
- Wholesale mobile regulation
- Services subject to regulation
- Mobile number portability
- Mobile termination charges
- Competition cases
- TI and Wind are fined by Italian competition authority
- Universal service
- Universal service fund
- Appendix
- The EC' s market definitions
List of Tables
- Table 1: Award of 3G licences in Italy
- Table 2: Multiple regional areas: blocks A and B
- Table 3: WiMAX licences: value and beneficiary companies
- Table 4: Retail price regulation applied to TI (residential services only)
- Table 5: Fixed sector: services subject to regulation
- Table 6: Price caps applying to fixed wholesale markets
- Table 7: Fixed termination call price caps and glidepath (€
cents/min)
- Table 8: Mobile sector: services subject to regulation
- Table 9: MTR glidepath for mobile operators in Italy (€ cents/min)
- Table 10: The EC' s definition of seven markets to be analysed
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