Issues raised by a new law which allows local government bodies to establish or subsidise high speed telecoms access. Topics include market impact, effect on competition and technical and legal aspects. Aim: to publish guidelines for these projects. Read more...

The third public consultation on market analysis, which concerns the fixed-telephony retail and wholesale markets Read more...

ARCEP is inviting comments on its analysis of the fixed line market before notifying the European Commission in mid-July. In September ARCEP expects to takeover from the government responsibility for tariff control and to require France Telecom to publish reference offers for interconnection and wholesale access. Read more...

Prior to offering licences for mobile television this consultation seeks views on spectrum allocation, likely services and the best economic model. Read more...

Consultation on remedies imposed on the SMP operator in market 18, the wholesale market for broadcasting transmission services covering networks and related installations used for services that deliver content. Comments to m18@arcep.fr Read more...

Comments invited on proposal to designate three metropolitan mobile operators - Orange France, SFR and Bouygues Télécom - as having signifcant market power for the termination of SMS messages. It is further proposed to to impose a tariff control, in the form of an orientation towards the costs of SMS… Read more...

The consultation examines the functioning of the national market for international roaming services on mobile networks and examines changes to come for the years2005-2008. Within this framework, ARCEP also conducts a market analysis. Read more...

Whether frequencies below 20GHz should be awarded in future by assignment rather than allotment due to the anticipated high demand for broadand services Read more...

Arcep has launched two public consultations: (i) on the renewal of the 2G Bouygues Télécom licence which ends on December 8, 2009; and (ii)the re-use of frequencies 900 and 1800 MHz by the 3G networks. They are seeking possible interest for the 4th 3G licence now available. If nobody comes… Read more...

ARCEP is proposing that the protocols SPIROU and SSUTR2 should be used to transmit location information to enable the emergency services to ascertain where the VoIP subscriber is calling from. Read more...