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"Madam President, it falls to me to be the one who cries wolf on this occasion. I do not normally take a position in this House which is based purely on national considerations but it seems to me that we are attempting to put in place a regulation which is inflexible and does not take into account the position of the market in Ireland. The proposal that we have will oblige Eirecom, a private limited company, a former state monopoly, to open up its local loop to alternative providers and will not oblige alternative providers already in the market place such as cable TV, satellite and wireless local loop operators to do the same. They are excluded from the scope of this regulation.
Cable TV companies in Ireland already possess the network and are already gearing up their network to provide telephony, Internet and other interactive services. In many cases they operate large and exclusive franchise areas. In the case of Ireland, penetration rates by these companies in the larger cities and towns is of the order of 90%, far exceeding those of Eirecom PLC. It is impossible to understand and entirely unacceptable that the proposal does not also encompass these TV cable companies. In addition, fixed network operators such as Eirecom will find it impossible to compete with these companies which are providing bundled services to customers, which often include Internet access and free local calls as part of their standard bundle of service offerings.
Clearly where an alternative competing network coexists with a copper network, either all should be unbundled or none. This will be consistent with the stated justification for unbundling put forward by the Commission. The regulation on unbundled access to local loop is by its very nature inherently flawed.
I do believe that worst law is in most cases bad law, and this is the case in relation to this regulation."@en1
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