The Broadband Cost Reduction Directive (BCRD) regulates access to the physical infrastructure of network operators such as electricity, gas, water, transport, as well as telecoms. The new Gigabit Infrastructure Act (GIA), which will enter into force on 12 November 2025, also covers providers of associated facilities.
In nine European countries the national symmetric obligations go beyond the scope set by BCRD and GIA. Symmetric obligations can apply to any electronic communications network provider, irrespective of market power.
National regulatory authorities (NRAs) may impose asymmetric access obligations for access to ducts and other civil engineering infrastructure (CEI) owned by electronic communications network providers designated as having SMP.
In 22 countries, the NRA imposed access to ducts as part of SMP remedies.
Our new benchmark analyses where regulators imposed asymmetric SMP obligations for access to ducts and where symmetric access obligations go beyond BCRD and GIA.
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