Unbundling local loops: global experiences
LINK Centre, has published a paper by Ewan Sutherland entitled, “Unbundling local loops: global experiences.” One of the policy instruments developed to facilitate the supply of telecommunications has been Local Loop Unbundling (LLU). Initially for voice telephony, it quickly became the centre of service based competition in broadband Internet access and the heart of a range of bundled services for the consumer market. LLU was introduced as a way to overcome the bottleneck control over the last (or first) mile of copper cable owned by incumbent operators which had proved very hard and very expensive to replicate. An alternative approach, discussed by a few countries, would have been structural separation, putting the ownership of the local loops into a different company.
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