Example of successful liberalization - Denmark
# Posted by Srdjan Popovic on April 5, 2010 at 5:05pm
As i live in Serbia, where in next couple of months we are expecting privatization of our government telecommunication operator Telekom Srbija, I find this topic very interesting. Also, the government have increased monthly rates, just like in Argentina, and now we face liberalization... or do we?
Telekom Srbija have the Last mile infrastructure in there possession and it will go in the hands of the new owner, so practically we are substituting government monopoly with private/corporate one.
I tried finding out how other countries have gone through this experience and tried to find a positive one. Here is the example of successful liberalization of Denmark telecommunication market, but I would like if someone can confirm it...
I will summarize it in few sentences:
• 1987: EU Green Book on 10 year plan for telecommunication liberalization.
• 1996: Implementation of the EU liberalization
• 1997: Direct regulation of interconnect prices
• 1998: Access to the raw copper, service provision
• 1999: Carrier preselection, number portability
• 2000: Revision of total set of regulations, further regulation of
interconnect prices
• 2001: Access to shared use of the raw copper, UMTS licenses
through an auction process
Key point is in 1998, when Telecom Denmark was fully privatized and in the same year they unbundled the local loop and gave their competitors access to the last mile.
This leaded to lowest rates for the last line in Europe, for 8€ per month in 2001.
Following this, by mid 2002 came the epilogue of the success of Danish telecom liberalization: ADSL had coverage off 95% of the Danish population.
Because of competition on the Last Mile Denmark has experienced:
• A very fast roll-out of broadband infrastructure covering 95% of the potential market within 1½ year
• Fast growth in broadband customers
• Fast growth in broadband services.
What can be done to have customer satisfied liberalization?
Open up last mile for other operators; speed up decision making process and due to the presence of a market-dominant player efficient regulation is critical for the success of liberalization
Both documents are from 2002.
http://download.tdcinternet.dk...vestor/pdf/HD_BAKOM_020502.pdf
http://www.comdays.ch/pdf/2002/04_2_5_dyremose.pdf
Evo vam i uspesan primer kada se zadrzi kontrola na
Last mile u Danskoj i kakve koristi imaju od toga krajnji korisnici.
Takodje, proverite na netu privatizaciju Telekoma u Argentini, pa cete videti prevelika poklapanja sa ovim sto se ovde desava. Samo da nam se ne desi argentinski scenario...
I pitty tha fool who makez hiz life a game, even if that game iz CS!!!