EC Reduces Regulations for Leased Lines

As part of the new regulatory framework for electronic communications the European Commission repealed former directives that required incumbent operators to provide leased line circuits throughout their territories. One of the principles of the new framework is that regulation must be removed when competition is delivering the desired result. In the case of leased lines, this means that national regulatory authorities in EU member States will be able to remove the obligation for an operator to provide some or all of the leased line types in the minimum set where market analysis shows that there is effective competition in the relevant leased line market.http://europa.eu.int