ANACOM is to push ahead with plans to impose access to the Altice-owned MEO’s fibre network and its ducts and posts.
It follows a response by the European Commission to a set of draft decisions by the Portuguese regulator.
ANACOM will now impose a regulatory obligation on Altice Portugal, requiring access to its fibre network in 402 districts that it perceives to lack effective competition. The company is also required to provide a wholesale offer of unbundled access to the optical fibre loop (ODF unbundling) through provision of a PON offer and subject to an obligation to grant access to fibre at a regional/local level (fibre bitstream offer). Under this offer, connectivity will be made available to alternative operators between the aggregated access terminal point and the local access terminal point, with configurable speeds of up to 1 Gbps.
Once the decision has been fully approved by ANACOM, Altice will then have six months to set out its offer and stakeholders and other interested parties a month to comment after that.
ANACOM says the obligations are both appropriate and proportionalwith the aim of supporting the emergence of competitive markets that work to the benefit of consumers.
