{"id":12052,"date":"2025-01-24T11:36:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T10:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brekoverband.de\/2025\/01\/24\/wik-short-study-model-for-sustainable-competition-in-the-fiber-optic-world\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T11:36:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T10:36:33","slug":"wik-short-study-model-for-sustainable-competition-in-the-fiber-optic-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brekoverband.de\/en\/2025\/01\/24\/wik-short-study-model-for-sustainable-competition-in-the-fiber-optic-world\/","title":{"rendered":"WIK short study &#8211; Model for sustainable competition in the fiber optic world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December, the Wissenschaftliches Institut f\u00fcr Infrastruktur und Kommunikationsdienste (WIK) published the study &#8220;Leitbild f\u00fcr nachhaltig funktionsf\u00e4hige Wettbewerb in der Glasfaserwelt&#8221;, which is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wik.org\/fileadmin\/user_upload\/Unternehmen\/Veroeffentlichungen\/Kurzstudien\/2024\/WIK_Kurzstudie_Leitbild-Wettbewerb-Glasfaserwelt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The study examines how sustainable, functioning competition in the market can look and function in a future &#8220;fiber optic world&#8221; in which fiber optic connections are available throughout Germany. BREKO will analyze and comment on the study. According to  <\/p>\n<p>We have summarized the most important course contents for you below:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background to the study:<\/strong> Despite progress in the expansion of fiber optics, Germany still has some catching up to do. The federal government&#8217;s gigabit strategy focuses on competition for expansion, but lacks a clear model for competition policy. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Objective of the study:<\/strong> Development of a model for sustainable competition in the fiber optic world.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is sustainable, functioning competition?<\/li>\n<li>Competitive functions: Ensuring freedom of action and choice, efficient allocation, dynamic efficiency and prevention of non-performance-related income.<\/li>\n<li>Sustainability: Competition is sustainable if it is structurally secure, which is more likely to be the case with infrastructure competition than with access-based competition.<\/li>\n<li>Functionality: Functional competition requires the existence of several competitors, ideally at least three.<\/li>\n<li>What is the world of fiber optics?<\/li>\n<li>FTTH networks: The aim is to achieve nationwide availability of fiber optic connections by 2030.<\/li>\n<li>Copper network: The copper network is an obsolete model and should be switched off in favor of fiber optics.<\/li>\n<li>Cable networks: Cable networks still offer competitive products today, but are under pressure from the superior performance of FTTH networks.<\/li>\n<li>A competition policy model for the fiber optic world<\/li>\n<li>Infrastructure competition: This should be promoted where it can be sustainable in the long term.<\/li>\n<li>Co-investment models: These models, in which several network operators invest jointly in the expansion, are particularly efficient.<\/li>\n<li>Access-based competition: Access to fiber-optic local loops and bitstream access are key elements of competition.<\/li>\n<li>Regulatory and competition policy support<\/li>\n<li>Evaluation of &#8220;fiber optic regulation light&#8221;: Review of current regulatory approaches.<\/li>\n<li>Measures against strategic overbuilding: Introduction of an expansion list for Deutsche Telekom&#8217;s FTTH construction projects.<\/li>\n<li>Enforcement of access to the fiber-optic local loop: Promotion of competition through access to the fiber-optic local loop.<\/li>\n<li>Regulations on apartment connections: creation of clear access models to the building&#8217;s internal infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>Concept for copper-glass migration: Development of an overall concept for switching off the copper network.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December, the Wissenschaftliches Institut f\u00fcr Infrastruktur und Kommunikationsdienste (WIK)  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breko-newsline-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brekoverband.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brekoverband.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brekoverband.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brekoverband.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brekoverband.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brekoverband.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brekoverband.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brekoverband.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brekoverband.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}